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noun - offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
noun - the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
TIGONS - A tigon () or tiglon () is a hybrid cross between a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a female lion (Panthera leo). Thus, it has parents with the sam...
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Sorta-striped feline hybrids |
Hybrid offspring of two large cats |
Lion/tiger crosses |
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Jun 25 2017 The Guardian - Quick crossword |
Sep 13 2011 Jonesin Crosswords |
Sep 1 2011 Jonesin' |
Feb 26 2007 The Telegraph - Quick |
Tigons description |
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A tigon () or tiglon () is a hybrid cross between a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a female lion (Panthera leo). Thus, it has parents with the same genus but of different species. The tigon is not currently as common as the converse hybrid, the liger, but in 1961, Gerald Iles wrote that he had been able to obtain three tigons, but he had never seen a liger.The tigon's genome includes genetic components of both parents, thus they can exhibit visible characteristics from both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for spotslion cubs are spotted and some adults retain faint markings) and stripes from the father. Any mane that a male tigon may have will appear shorter and less noticeable than a lion's mane and is closer in type to the ruff of a male tiger. It is a common misconception that tigons are smaller than lions or tigers. They do not exceed the size of their parent species because they inherit growth-inhibitory genes from the lioness mother, but the |