earth-song:

more about Ligre - It is believed that the sheer size of these animals grow to occur by the absence of genes thatcondition the production of hormones growth inhibitors. That’s because this is a lion in thematernal inheritance, and the father is tigers, ligersso do not get those genes. The cross between lionsand tigers only occurs through the action of man. In addition to the habitats of both species are very different, they generally do not share the same territories, so that there is unlikely to come together to form this strange intersection. Today these animals coexist in nature only in the Gir forest, India.Previously however, lions and tigers have coexistedin Mesopotamia, the Caucasus, Persia, Afghanistan and in much of the Indian subcontinent.