Happy Feline Friday! These three-month-old liger cubs have a tigress mother and a lion father.
Happy Feline Friday! These three-month-old liger cubs have a tigress mother and a lion father. This work describes their appearance:“The young of the Lion are calculated to deceive an inexperienced observer, from the fact of their being striped transversely, so as to induce the opinion, at first sight, that they rather belong to the Tiger, and, in this respect, the cubs in question agreed with those of the Lion. In the young Lions, however, these stripes soon become obliterated, but in those before us, they appear to be getting more decided and permanent, and, in fact, to be assuming the permanent Tigrine character…The shaped of the head, as appears by the figures, is assimilated to that of the father (the Lion) ; the superficies, of the body, on the other hand, is like that of the Tigress.” (p. 449)Images from:Cuvier, Georges. The animal kingdom: arranged in conformity with its organization. Vol. 2. London: printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1827-1835.Call Number: QL45 .C943 1827 V.2Catalog Record: https://bit.ly/3Go7lBN -- source link
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