Are Lion-Tiger hybrids sterile or fertile?

Actually both Ligers and Tigons are FERTILE. They were predicted to be sterile, but there are second generations of pure breds in captivity.





I'm shocked at how many people who think they know about animals get it all wrong. Popular misconceptions do not make fact.

Are Lion-Tiger hybrids sterile or fertile?
I real life, they do not exist.





Sorry to rain on the parade, ND fans...
Reply:Ligers and Tigons are believed to be sterile because they are not natural. However, I have read of one case where a Tigon mated with a Tiger and surprised her keepers with a baby Ti-tigon! The following comes from the Shambala preserve web site:


"Shambala once also had a tigon, the beautiful Noelle, who was born at Christmas, 1978. She also had a vocabulary of both lion and tiger sounds, and light stripes. Because she was a hybrid, everyone "knew" she was sterile, and so she joined Anton, a male Siberian tiger. To the surprise of everyone, including Shambala's veterinarians, she gave birth on September 16, 1983 to an extremely rare 'ti-tigon.'"





So, yes, scientifically, they should be sterile, but there is at least one documented account of a Tigon reproducing. Check out the link I posted- it shows a Liger, a Tigon and a Ti-Tigon.
Reply:The fact that you even know what a Liger is, and that someone had told you they were sterile, leads me to believe you already knew the answer.
Reply:Females are fertile. Males are infertile.
Reply:YOU MEAN LIGERS!?!? Like Napoleon Dynamite!?
Reply:They are always Sterile.
Reply:Ligers are sterile and tigons are fertile. I just watched it on TV. Before that, I assumed that both were sterile. The father is first in the name so a male lion crossed with a tiger is the Liger and they are much larger than tigons.
Reply:Male Ligers (offspring of a male lion and a female tiger) and Tigons (offspring of a female lion and male tiger) are almost always sterile while the female offspring can be either sterile or fertile.
Reply:Completely infertile
Reply:LIGERS %26amp; Tigons are allmost allways sterile being unable to produce young themselves, but still act like normal males %26amp; females.





But like horse, donkey crosses ( Mules ) a very few females are fertile %26amp; will produce Live young when mated to a pure speceices male.