Liger
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The liger is a big cat hybrid, the interbred offspring of a lion (Panthera leo) and a tiger (Panthera tigris). More specifically, it's the result of a mating between a male lion and a female tiger (or tigress); it only happens in captivity due to lions and tigers rarely meeting in the wild. They are much larger than both parents, some reaching nearly a thousand pounds in weight. For a long time, the liger was thought to be sterile, but a ligress in a Russian zoo in 2011 had given birth to a litter of cubs fathered by a lion. These cubs are called "liligers".
It has an opposite in the tigon, the offspring of a male tiger and a lioness.