American experts have successfully crossed an African male lion with a Bengal female tiger, giving birth to a litter of 4 males belonging to an extremely rare and unique hybrid species in the world, named called "liger".
The special thing about the lion father and the tiger mother is that they are both white, very rare. Statistics show that there are only about 300 white lions and 1,200 white tigers in the world.
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When raised together at the Myrtle Beach Safari park, South Carolina, USA, the parents of different species gave birth to the world's first 4 white lion-tiger hybrids (referred to as "liger"). gender. Before that, there were about 1,000 ligers in the world, most of them in captivity, but none of them were white.
Born 6 weeks ago, 4 male lingers now weigh 6.8kg and gain an average of 0.5kg per day. They are named Yeti, Odlin, Sampson and Apollo respectively.
According to the caretakers, each linger has its own personality. Apollo is the youngest, with a somewhat domesticated cat-like behavior, always purring... purring and always demanding to be petted. Yeti is the largest and most aggressive, always wanting to be the center of attention.
Hercules, the "uncle" of the lingers, is currently officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest individual of the cat family, with a "huge" weight of 418.2kg and a length of 3.3 meters. Dr. Bhagavan Antle, founder and director of Myrtle Beach Safari, is confident that Yeti will be "his" size or even larger.
Experts say that the four white lingers are expected to be up to 3 meters long and weigh about 340kg at 2 years old. At 4 years old, their weight can be more than 408.2kg. These lingers tend to enjoy swimming like tigers and enjoy socializing with lions.
