Liger Appreances & Physcial Variations

Since the ligers are the hybrids of the male lion and the female tiger, their appearances may take one dominant gene of one parent on different accounts. Female ligers appear to be almost the same. However, the real variance comes in the male ligers in terms of their appearances. The most obvious one is that some male ligers have manes while some male ligers have no mane.

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In this liger project, when we studied Patrick the liger, it had the mane. On the other hand, when we studied about the male liger named as Hercules it had no mane. In fact none of the other three male liger brothers of Hercules which included Zeus, Vulcan and Sinbad had manes. Dr. Antle says that these ligers may develop manes at the later stages of their lives.

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The manes of the ligers are not so big. In the positive way, the manes of the ligers are moderate in size, and they look well groomed under those manes as compared to the wild bushy manes of the lions.

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Some female ligers are very much like the lionesses. They even do not have any such kind of stripes. However, some female ligers have very dark browned color stripes on their back. The same is true about the male ligers as well. When the ligers are young, the stripes at their bodies are very visible; as they become older the stripes fade away and become very dim.

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It is very important to note that the stripes of the ligers are brown, while the stripes are of the tigers are always black. Therefore, the liger accumulates unique dark brownish colored stripes on its body which do not belong either to the lion and the tigers.

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Similarly, some ligers inherit the tails of the lions, while other ligers inherit the tails of the tigers as well. But majority of the ligers have the tails of the tigers rather than that of the lions.

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