A Russian zoo is home to a unique animal – the liger. It is half-lioness, half-tiger. Mother Zita is pictured licking her one month old liliger cub
I DON’T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU CALL IT LOOK AT HER HAPPY LITTLE FACE IN THE LAST PICTURES SHE’S SO PROUD OF HER LIL CUB AND HER SPOTS AND SHE’S GOTTA BE TOUGH MOMMA WHEN THE BABY’S LOOKING BUT AS SOON AS THEY TURN AROUND, SHE’S LIKE,
“:3 Look at it. I made a thing. I made a rly good thing. :3”
So the liger mated with a leopard? So liliger? I’m about to DIE! I LOVE THEM 😍
According to a quick google search liligers are a lion + a ligress, so no leopards!
Fun Fact: the ancestor of all cats likely had rosettes. Big cats lost their rosettes, and leopards actually evolved a convergent rosette pattern. The spots lion cubs have is because of a phenomenon called recapitulation theory where babies show ancestral genetic traits!
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