Hybrid animals, or crossbreeds, are the offspring of two distinct or closely related species. While some hybrids occur ...

Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers. Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are ...

A liger — which is a "ligre" in Spanish — is a hybrid offspring of a male lion and a tigress, a female tiger. A tigon is the ...

The liger is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger (tigress). Ligers are the largest known cats in the world ...

Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers. Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are ...