Lioness gives birth to tigons (China) and Another polar bear cub charms Germans

[polly7]

Lioness gives birth to tigons (0:53)
March 6 - A lioness gives birth to a pair of tiger-lion hybrids and a lion cub in the same litter in eastern China. Tara Cleary reports. ( Transcript )

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/03/06/lioness-gives-birth-to-tigons?videoId=231316331

Another polar bear cub charms Germans (1:19)
March 29 - A zoo in Wuppertal, Germany shows off its latest arrival, polar bear cub Anori, who shares the same father as the late celebrity bear Knut. Tara Cleary

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/03/29/another-polar-bear-cub-charms-germans?videoId=232536630&videoChannel=74

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Anybody know offhand whether the hybrids are fertile?

Or are they feline "mules?"

[polly7]

2. The transcript on the side of the video doesn't say,

but I found this:

"Infertility in hybrid cats is often claimed, but this is not always correct. It seems accurate to say the males are infertile; post mortems have confirmed this, but females may go on to produce offspring This page displays a photograph of a ti-liger (above) and a ti-tigon (below)."

[IMG][/IMG] Isn't it cute!!

http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/tigons.html