Boco the Li-Liger

One of the world's rarest Li-Liger named as Boco lives at the Wynnewood Zoo in Oklahoma, USA. Boco is the male Li-Liger and he is most probably the biggest Li-Liger (not the biggest liger) in the world. To its biggest credit, Boco is the world's first male Li-liger big cat. A Li-Liger has a male lion as its father and a female liger (ligress) as its mother. Boco was born to the male African lion and the female liger. Boco the Li-liger was born in 2017 while the world's first Li-liger was the female liger (named as Lyra) which was born at the Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia.

A Li-liger named as Boco lives at the Wynnewood Zoo in Oklahoma, USA. Boco is the world's first male Li-Liger and it has the male lion as its father and the female liger (Ligress) as his mother.

There are less than 15 Li-ligers in the world and Boco is one of them. Furthermore; very few people in the world actually know about the existence of the Li-Ligers as people mostly assume that ligers are sterile and they can't have their cubs. However; when the ligers give birth, their cubs are called the Li-Ligers are the Ti-Ligers. Let's learn more about Boco the Li-liger with some further details.

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Boco the Li-liger is very huge with a massive body structure. His overall size is much bigger than a normal lion or a tiger. Just like the ligers, the Li-Ligers also have the ability to grow bigger in size than the lions and the tigers. However; the Li-ligers do not grow as bigger as the ligers. Boco the Li-liger weighs around 750 pounds while his linear body length is almost 11 feet long.

Boco the Li-Liger is the biggest Li-Liger in the world without a competition. He easily weighs around 750 pounds in weight and his body length is almost 11 feet long.

Since there is no other male Li-Liger in our observation and Boco the Li-Liger already has a staggeringly huge size, therefore; it easily qualifies as the biggest Li-Liger in the world without a competition. Currently; the world's biggest cat is a liger named as Hercules which weighs 921 pounds and lives at Myrtle Beach Safari, South Carolina, USA. However; recently a liger named as Apollo weighs much more than 900 pounds and he is destined to be the biggest liger in the world.

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Boco the Li-Liger has a very unique appearance. First its huge size and secondly it has a very unique fur. Even though the fur color of the Boco is similar to his father i.e., the lion, however; its fur has very unique spots which make its fur totally unique within the big cat world. Surprisingly; both the lions and the tigers don't have spots on their fur but the Li-Ligers' fur has spotted marks and so does Boco the Li-liger. These spots are dark brown in color and their pattern somehow resembles to the pattern of the jaguar spots (not the color just the pattern).

Boco the Li-Liger has a unique fur which has a tawny brown (light brown) complexion and dark brown spotted marks like the spotted marks of the jaguars.

Furthermore; the presence of the spots on the fur of the Li-ligers such as Boco is a clear indicator that all big cats share common genes and when triggered they may show each other's characteristics as well. Even recently the Journal of Science Advances has confirmed that all big cats share at least 13,000 common genes. The presence of the spots on the fur of the Boco the Li-Liger may possibly has been because of such common genes.

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The birth and the existence of Boco the Li-Liger gives us a clear insight that the ligers are not sterile and they are capable of producing a new and unique generation of hybrid offspring. A decade ago there were no such thing as Li-ligers in the world and people used to think that the ligers are sterile. However; this current decade of 2010s has produced so much Li-Ligers in Russia, USA and even recently in China that no question about the sterility of the ligers exist any further.

The existence of the Li-Ligers such as Boco gives us a key proof and insight that the ligers are not sterile but rather they are fertile. Furthermore; his existence also proves that like ligers, the Li-Ligers are also in perfect health as well.

Secondly; Boco the Li-Liger is in perfect health and he behaves normally like other big cats species. Furthermore; as the time progresses; we may learn more about the behavior of the Li-Ligers within the hybrid world of the super big cats.

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As mentioned earlier; Boco the Li-Liger lives at the Wynnewood Zoo, within the Oklahoman state, USA. The exact address of this zoo is "25803 N County Road 3250, Wynnewood, OK 73098, USA". Boco was born at the Wynnewood Zoo and has been living in the zoo since then. If you are a big fan of the hybrid big cats such as the ligers, Li-Ligers and even the Ti-Ligers, then you can watch them all at once at the Wynnewood Zoo.

Boco the Li-Liger lives at the Wynnewood Zoo which not only has ligers, but also tigons, Li-Ligers, Ti-Ligers, Li3-Ligers and the Ti3-Ligers.

It is the only zoo in the world which has maximum numbers of hybrid big cats such as the ligers, Tigons, Li-Ligers, Ti-Ligers, Li3-Ligers and Ti3-Ligers. The zoo offers excellent living conditions for the animals and Boco the Li-Liger enjoys its life at the Wynnewood Zoo. A custom built enclosure is made for the Boco and he is the only Li-Liger that shares this enclosure.

Birth Place of Boco
Wynnewood Zoo Wynnewood Zoo also has
Ligers, Ti-Ligers, Li3-Ligers & Ti3-Ligers Boco the Li-Liger
Lives alone in its Enclosure Wynnewood Zoo
Offers Best Conditions for Boco the Li-Liger

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According Boco's owner Joseph Maldonado (Joe); the purpose of these Li-Ligers and other hybrid big cats is to educate the people about the big cats and allow researchers to further look into the hybridization process. Joe can often be seen with Boco the liger while educating the people and the zoo visitors about the size of this hybrid big cat by letting him stand on its hind legs to grab a lure as high as 11 feet.

Boco the Li-Liger can assist the researchers to further know about the process of hybridization within the big cats. Boco can also become the Brand Ambassador of the big cats for the conservation of the big cat species in the wild.

Big cats such as Boco which are huge as Boco the Li-Liger often become the brand ambassador of the big cats and they significantly help in the big cat conservation in the wild. Boco the Li-Liger is expected to do the same as well when he will become a fully mature Li-Liger weighing over 800 pounds.

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