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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MythandLore" data-source="post: 208437" data-attributes="member: 180">I'm not sure what your trying to say about Creation Scientists (as to what part is a crock? - evolution?)Tigers an lions are pretty diffrent enuff that most (male) ligers are infertile (the low level of testosterone could be the reason why they are relitively gentle when compared to other big cats) just like most mules are.You might also like to know it seems like alot of other cats "can" be hybrid, the combinations are pretty endless.Not to mention the awesome looking "mutation" cats like white/black tigers, and lions.A science "advances" and more and people want to "play god" I bet you'll see some really over the top stuff pop up someday.PS -  I think It was live on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last year.I think he was a rescue, I don't remeber what zoo he's at now though.They tend to be bred for the illegal pet trade or to be hunted, but I did hear earlier this year some zoo (I can't remeber if it was in europe or asia) was trying to bred ligers on purpose, I don't know why, my only guess would be as some kind of attraction for people to see.They really do dwarf other cats though, even the biggest tigers.But someday there could be a extra large tiger or lion that pops up, you never know, but with there shrinking gene pools it's unlikey, it's weird to think there is less 'genetically' in common between a tiger an a lion then there is between (both are modern horses) a horse that was 19 inches tall and 30 pounds at the withers and a horse that was almost 7 feet to the withers and 3940Lbs (which is really damn big when you think about how someone like Shaq is about as tall as that horse's shoulder).</blockquote>

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