OMG! Napoleon Dynamite's"Liger" is real!!!

[underpants]

Deb: What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
Deb: What's a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite: It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/quotes

February 17, 2005 -- Behold Hercules the mighty liger — 900 pounds of big cat that's part lion, part tiger and all humongous.

http://nypost.com/news/nationalnews/22018.htm

[redqueen]

1. NO PICS?

This is becoming a real problem I think.

[Avalux]

2. Is that what's prowling around the Reagan Library??

Yikes!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1247658

[Teaser]

3. So's the time machine.

I know. I tried it. Works just like in the movie.

[matcom]

4. they had one at the Salt Lake City zoo

was there for years. after she died, they had her stuffed and she is on display in the big cat area

[TheMightyFavog]

5. A liger

A Liger

Lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars are all members of the same genus: Panthera and all represent radiations of a common ancestor that was probably morphologically most similar to the modern leopard and lived about five million years ago. Tigers are genetically most closely related to lions and can in fact interbreed forming hybrids called ligers when the father is a lion and tigons when the father is a tiger. These hybrids occur only in captivity; not apparently in situ, (lions and tigers coexist in the wild today only in the Gir forest of India although their respective ranges used to intersect in Persia, China and perhaps also Beringia) and are usually sterile like the mule (a hybrid of a horse and a donkey). However, the Shambala Preserve - a big cat sanctuary founded by actress Tippi Hedren -- had a female tigon named Noelle who mated with a male Siberian tiger and gave birth to a ti-tigon. Ms. Hedren reports that Noelle could "speak" both lion and tiger but spoke only tiger to her son.



A rare non-sterile Tigon and its offspring.

[underpants]

6. bred for its skills in magic.

Gosh!