What Happens When Lions and Tigers Mate and What Are the Hybrid Cross-Bred Offspring Called?
Lions and Tigers never mate in the wild. But they sometimes do in in big cat refuges in the United States, resulting in hybrid cross-breed babies. The offspring are called ligers and tigons, or sometimes, illogically, tiglons. A liger is the result of a male lion mating with a tigress, while the tigon, or tiglon, is from a male
