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==History==
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[[Cuvier]] reported a litter of three lion-tiger "mules" born in October 1824 in England to an African lion and an Asiatic tigress owned by an itinerant exhibitor and animal dealer. The parents shared a den and had mated frequently during July 1823. The cubs were exhibited to his Majesty. Cuvier presented an engraving of 2 cubs at 3 months old and observed that they would probably reach maturity. He described them as being dirty-yellow or "blanket-colour" with darker tiger-like stripes on the body and spots on the head and on parts of the body. They had lion-like heads. These appear to be the first recorded ligers.
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In 1935, four ligers from two litters, were reared in the Zoological Gardens of Bloemfontein, South Africa. Three of them, a male and two females, were still living in 1953. The male weighed 750 lb. and stood a foot and a half taller than a full grown male lion at the shoulder.
Although ligers are more commonly found than tigons today, in "At Home In The Zoo" (1961), Gerald Iles wrote ''For the record I must say that I have never seen a liger, a hybrid obtained by crossing a lion with a tigress. They seem to be even rarer than tigons.''
==Large size==
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