Could Ligers Survive In The Wild?
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- Could Ligers Survive In The Wild?
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Liger is one of the most popular hybrid animals. Created by the mating of a male lion with a female Tiger, they tend to far exceed the size of both of their parents and although they share similar characteristics with both of them, the Liger tends to be more like a Lion rather than a Tiger.
The largest ligers often grow to lengths of more than 3.3 meters (10.8 feet) and weigh more than 400 kg (900 pounds); however, there are reports of some individuals weighing more than 1,000 kg (2,200 pounds).
The Liger is an enormous animal with a large muscular body and broadhead. Ligers tend to have sandy or dark yellow fur which is covered in the distinctive faint stripes inherited from their mother. Although other variations in fur color have been known, the Liger generally has a more Lion-like appearance including the manes of the males. Although a Liger’s mane is not as big or as impressive as that of an adult Lion, they can grow quite large on some individuals but it is not uncommon for a male Liger to have no mane at all. Along with their stripes which tend to be most noticeable around their hindquarters, the Liger may also inherit the spots found on the backs of Tiger’s ears along with the tufted fur around their chins.
Despite their gigantic size and the fact that their parents are two of the planet’s most ferocious predators, the Liger is an animal that is known to have a relatively gentle and docile nature, particularly when interacting with handlers. They have however been reported to be slightly confused as to whether or not they are Lions or Tigers as their most bewildering characteristic is the fact that they seem to love water. In the wild, it is not uncommon for Tigers to enter the water either to catch prey or to cool down in the heat and so they are naturally good swimmers, which is something that the Liger seems to have inherited. Lions do not like water however and so it is often reported that it does take some time for the Liger to take to its water-loving lifestyle. Another odd thing is the fact that the Liger appears to make both Lion and Tiger noises but its roar is more like that of a Lion’s.
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imagine a pride of ligers, if these guys figure out the wildlife game they might actually be a force to be reckoned with
There all infertile you know
@@ashleyoasis7948 oh right I forgot about that
Pride of ligers? They are infertile
BUT IF THEY WERE FERTILE THEY WOULD BE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH
@@yonadaniel5356 perhaps
Some wild born hybrids can survive in the wild. Like the polar-grizzley bear hybrid and the blue-fin whale hybrid.
They occurred naturally in the wild, like coywolves and whalphin's.
ligers require to much consumption to survive the wild, as male lions and female tigers lack the growth inhibitor gene, and a felidaes hunting success rate is pretty low average. A tigon would have far better success.
@@inaaronshead7331 I don’t think so because many pre historic big cats were huge and got as big as ligers. But that’s when megafauna was more abundant tho…
@@fellipedasilva99 Exactly megafauna was more abundant and could support a diet.. ecological change is why bigger predators, like dire wolf and Megladon we're out competed and driven to extinction, their diet couldn't adapt.
@@inaaronshead7331 what is da fukcus is megafauna if I may
@@blastroisehunt6546 the megafauna comprises the large or giant animals of an area, habitat, or geological period, extinct and/or extant..
Such megafauna is megatherium, Australia megafauna, dire wolves.. mammoth etc.
It would be interesting to see how an adult Liger would do as a hunter if as a cub it was raised by a wild group of lions
It most likely would get killed by the wild group
@@daplug8636 i dont c why.
@@daplug8636 Doubt it, especially since the father would be the lion of the pride, the only difficult part would be with the tigress
Ligers would be too big and slow to catch and kill prey .
Look at them they look like American adults, fat and slow .
A Tigon being dwarf size compared to it’s parents would be better survivors .
They will eat all Elephant, Rhino & Hippos ☹️
The amounts of food they'd have to eat in the wild to support their massive bodies would make things a bit complicated they'd be spending almost all their time hunting and eating.
it just goes to show that this cross breed was a mistake! They should let this man made disaster die out and never cross breed them again.
@@jeromeosills6522 Ligers could actually occur naturally in India with Indian Lions and Tigers. Especially when lions existed throughout Eurasia.
Big cats got as big as ligers when megafauna was more abundant…
@@fellipedasilva99 lions and tigers are bound to clash in the wild in India but a liger occuring is a far fetched scenario
Not in Australia.
Given how often ligers die to heart attacks or other medical issues, I'd doubt they'd last long in the wild without humans giving them medical aid whenever they need it.
But are the heart attacks and medical problems due to their sedentary lifestyle or a result of the genetics?
@@saaddagoat Mostly due to their genetics. They're a biological disaster on the inside, and their massive size only makes it worse.
Basically, ligers are what happen when you crudely mix together tiger and lion body plans without any thought for long term survival or giving evolution time to work out the kinks...not that evolution would work for them since hybrids like ligers are sterile anyway.
@Big Daddy Rikka...Though that would be difficult given that they can't reproduce to begin with.
@Big Daddy Rikka Really? I haven't heard of this. How so?
@Big Daddy Rikka not really how evolution works, they would just dissappear pretty quickly
Due to the health problems and the sheer amount of calories demanded from being such a huge size I doubt a liger would last long in the wild. Not to mention how much slower they are because of this. They would have to go after slower prey, similar to when one of their parent species becomes injured, likely causing them to go after humans. The only case I could see the animal lasting for any prolonged amount of time would be in the mentioned pride setting, where the faster lionesses could capture prey for it. perhaps utilizing the ligers strength to take down larger animals once the others have held it in place. Though it's highly unlikely a pride would accept and outsider, especially one so strange. Maybe as a cub, but even still lions kill cubs that aren't theirs.
Overall I give a wild liger a 2-5% chance of surviving close to lifespan in nature. There's a reason they don't occur naturally very often, even in India where the two parent species overlap.
In India they don't exactly overlap, i mean in the past maybe but it wouldn't be recorded as much in past anyways.
But currently asiatic lions are only found in the forest of gir in the gujarat. Gujarat doesn't have a tiger population.
Ligers are NOT slow they are faster than both lions and tigers this ignorant rumor pisses me off a lot because it's such a dumb myth
Other than that you're a 100% right the health issue would make it difficult to survive in the wild a lot of them have issues but it's not like all ligers have health issues
@Gabriel Fernández they'd have a 50/50 chance we can't know for sure because there aren't any in the wild but yeah the reasons given as to why ligers supposedly cannot live in the wild are not strong enough to make that a fact
İt aint no slow
@@lillypharaoh5945 See, the thing about health issues and speed, every counter argument against that has been made by liger breeders. People who actually make money out of breeding these animals. The speed record is actually derived from a liger known as Hercules. His owner, 'Dr'. Antle and the owner of Myrtle Beach Safari, claims that ligers are usally healthy and that they have recorded such speeds...But its important to remember that Antle is a well known fraud and animal abuser, whose even been sued and arrested and waiting for trial as we speak. Heck, a lot of 'research' that claims ligers are healthy or fast is derived from LigersWorld, a site where professional sciencetists claim to show the 'truth' about these animals. But when you actually research these people, it turns out none of them are actual sciencetists. They're all breeders who make money out of breeding these animals, none of them have an actual education (Antle claims he has a zoological degree. He never even attended unversity though and has never performed any actual peer-reviewed research) and the majority of them have a shady past that involves fraud and animal abuse.
Yeah, no. Ligers have been known to pretty much drop dead in captivity, they have health problems galore. They would not last a day in the wild, I'd wager they'd be killed off by healthier predators or starvation before they have any significant impact on the environment
No, they don't have any predisposed health conditions at all. That is a myth. So is them being infertile. They aren't infertile at all. Another myth
They might have loads of strength, but I don't think they have the speed to catch prey reliably, plus the fact that they may not camouflage well in bushes.
Maybe if they had to hunt large prey who weren't fast, then maybe.
Alternatively, Ligers could probably act as scavengers, who use their size and strength to scare off other predators. Just like how the short-faced bear of the Pleistocene era did.
during the ice age, one of the top tier predators was a massive bear and guess what, it was a scavenger! despite its massive size it would simply scavenge off of fallen prey and scare off any other predators with its massiveness, although I'm unsure whether the bear you mentioned was it or not cuz TierZoo wasn't being specific
@@donutlovingwerewolf8837 and just so you know that Scavenger!!! Was also the apex predator no exceptions could reach very high speeds and regularly hunted aswell as scavenged
A fat out of shape liger is faster than a lion and tiger. One in the wild would be much faster. That's a Stat noone ever talks about. They run close to 20 mph faster than a tiger
@@Dc-kk9bd so why is everyone trashing on the liger and saying it would just immediately die of starvation in the wild
@@maalikserebryakov because every liger in zoos r bread to make the biggest beast possible. They don't care about obesity. An extra 100 pounds is an extra 100 pounds. It will make them more money. So people assume that they would also be this lazy and out of shape in the wild. Find a lioness that just lost her cubs then give it a baby liger. That liger wouldn't have to hunt or do anything. That's what the lionesses r for. His only job is to scare off other lions and hyenas
I wonder if a Liger would want to join a lion pride if some were introduced into the Africa or would they be more inclined to just stick together
Lol the liger would destroy the pride, just the tiger does
I'm not sure if a liger would even be accepted. Big cats have been known to kill their own offspring if they show to much differences from their parents (tigers will kill white cubs, lions will abondon deformed cubs etc), and if we're talking about a liger that wasn't even born in the pride to begin with, the chanche would be incredibly small. While it has sometimes happened that an animal was accepted into a group of a different species (we know of striped hyenas being accepted into Arabian wolf packs for example), this is extremely rare and not the norm. So even if it happened, it wouldn't be a common event.
I think Ligers would be fine in the wild especially if they were raised from cubs by adult Lions... Lions hunt together and protect each other so with Ligers it would be strength in numbers whether they are the leader or not. I would think it would do better in Africa than in the jungle...
Probably not though. Ligers often have poor genetics and their big size actually works against them. An animal of that size with so many health issues would be unlikely to survive in the wild.
Ligers can't really reproduce. Meaning the males would get tossed out of the pride. And they eat far too much to keep up. Lions in Africa dont exactly always get to eat as much as they'd like, and if you get to stay you're likely a female. Which doesn't get to eat first. They'd die off in the wild.
Ligers like water. Hunt cocodrilians like jaguars.
I find it funny how no one has ever seen a liger actually do it’s thing in the wild for any real length of time but can say with certainty that they wouldn’t survive. Crazy to me
This man made disaster is whats crazy! They shoudnt have done this. They should let them die out and never cross breed them again.
Exactly. What we're seeing are spoiled overweight babies, that have 0 hunting experience and no physical labor. The true potential of the Liger has never been shown. In the right circumstances, I'm positive a wild raised Liger would be a true apex predator.
I see your point, but most man-made genetic creations don’t survive in the wild
@@scienceuser99 They can’t even breed and have multiple genetic diseases. Nature isn’t about who looks the coolest, it’s about who has the best adaptations for survival and the liger is a disaster of a functional animal so…
You understand geography right? There’s no possible way of a liger in the wild unless it has been introduced by a man because tigers and lions will never meet… it’s forced breeding of 2 species which has drastic effects on the animals health and infertility, therefore even if there was such thing as a Liger they’d die off instantly anyways
I think only ideal situation that makes sense is if the liger is introduced as a cub with a pride and raised with them.
Video suggestion: Could Mountain Gorillas thrive in South America
Probably tbh
Just avoid the roided leopards and you'll be fine.
Hell, with the lack of considerable predators in open areas, save for pumas, they could make it
They will eat all Elephant, Rhino & Hippos ☹️
@@goofygoober5270 a puma definitely ain't gonna take down a gorilla for sure! Leopards are one things but puma? Lol
They’d be still slow to hunt
@@user-zg7cf4bs4v pumas are bigger
Seems like they'd likely struggle to find sufficient food to support themselves in the wild. I didn't know they were basically a domesticated type of large cat.
For a future video could grizzly bears survive in Africa? How about wolves?
Good thinking I personally like the grizzlies idea!
Are those animals rely to the cold to survive?
Wolves would thrive in Africa
Wild dogs would go extinct
I think in wild they would adapt to become smaller so that they can feed themselves sufficient food.
They would just have cancer and organ failure because ligers are prone to health problems unfortunately
Nice video, but I think tigers and lions surviving together in the wild will make for a more interesting video.
Thanks! :D
If they survive in the wild together still the liger will be the final outcome for these 2.
Now that's the best comparison ever
Lions
Tigers
Those 2 are GOATS
Let’s ask India about that.
@@caesarroe1283 if they survived in the wild the male tigers would take every pride from the lions and taking the lionesses the outcome would be only tigons
Can a black man survive in the suburbs.
It really depends on what region and habitat they are released in. It mostly depends on what species they're gonna live alongside.
The only big cat hybrid that could thrive in the wild would be the leopon, because its the only one that is generally fertile for both genders and can produce offspring.
If you manage to convince the lion not to kill the leopard on sight, which is generally impossible to do. Lions will react aggresively to leopards and leopards will avoid lions.
Female ligers can reproduce, but they can only be bred back to lions or tigers, because males are sterile. A factor that may improve their chances in the wild is that a wild liger would be leaner, and not over fed like you can see in zoos. A liger would fit much better in a pride than in a solitary life like a tiger, and would probably be better suited for warmer weather climates.
Normally I would say, "No way could it survive" but I watched a nature documentary where they found a full grown completely blind tiger....so anything is possible. The tiger that was completely blind died a few weeks after they found it, but it somehow survived into adulthood.
Maybe wasn't born blind.
@@user-gb4rs5rr3e I think we can go ahead and drop the maybe lol i swear sometimes people on this channel Crack me up the way yall play pretend. No predator that doesn't live in a social pack is surviving blind into adulthood on land. No anything is not possible and just because some producer put it in a documentary doesn't mean it's real
I think it would definitely be interesting to see a new born liger cub raised by a lion pride!!!
A lion would hate it. Could u imagine a male lion getting his ass kicked by a girl and her being the alpha.
@@Dc-kk9bd 😂
Couldn't hunt like a big cat as their too slow and too large for ambush, however their size may open up a new niche as scavenger.
Many pre historic big cats were as big as ligers.
@@fellipedasilva99 but prehistoric cats was not created by humans but natur .... thats a diferent liger is not fast not endurance for normal wild living
@@fellipedasilva99 Agree entirely but those meg-herbivores are also extinct. A 450kg Liger would push hyaenas and some lions off kills
@HUB GOBLIN The truely heavy big cats like S. Populator or the American lion went extinct when the mega- herbivores went extinct via climate change or man or a combination. So did large predators such as the dire wolf. Predators today are smaller and agile to match thier prey. Could a pack of Ligers take down hippos,rhino,elephants prey that could support there nutriotional requirements and lack of agility probably. However the chances are remote. Rarely does nature leave a niche un-occupied if a mega-cat niche was possible either they would have survived or lions/tigers would have evolved into it. Perhaps one could argue the Siberian tiger/ Bengal Tiger pre widespread use of fire-arms occupied that niche with reports of individuals approaching 400kg is the exception.
@HUB GOBLIN yes what wrong ... unnatrural animal???and so big
Ligers are a domestic bred animal, they were bred by humans and captive. They are cared for by humans therefore they have no experience with wild living. These cats also have a lot of health problems and many are obese or prone to obesity which also does not help them at all. They are enormous cats, they’re heavy so they would be out of breath quickly and they wouldn’t have the ability and stealth that other cats possess. Plus they are infertile. They cannot produce other ligers. The only way a liger could live in the wild is if it was born and raised in the wild. If a lion met a tigress and he got her pregnant, then she would raise those ligers and teach them the ways of the wild, then the ligers would have a chance at survival. Other than that, no.
My question is, do they have a big enough heart and lungs for their body size? They look like they might be prone to health problems that doom them to short life spans sort of like many large domestic dog breeds. 🐕
I think a liger could survive as a scavenger. Their large size could intimidate and scare off slim Animals like Hyenas and vultures away from the carcass.
But most animals are in a group.
@@arbinpunk4819 I think Ligers in wild would have to hunt for food instead of being fed...so they would be in shape instead of a fat animal that doesn't do anything all day...One lion can take 5 hyenas so imagine a Liger in shape
@@originaltroll7511 They can't be though. See, ligers aren't out of shape because of a captive lifestyle (though it can contribute), but rather genetics. Lions and tigers both posess growth hormones that ideally make it so that the offspring is of ideal size. Not to big, not to small. However, lion and tiger growth hormones don't exactly mix. This results in their freakishly large size and numerous genetic and even mental health issues.
I've wondered about this issue myself several times, since I heard about the existence of the LIGER's. Who can honestly say for certain though? Being able to take to waters like tigers and living in social groups like lions........, yeah, it'd be difficult to understand what you are as a species, thus therefore being unable to determine what enviornment would be most suited for 'em. No wonder they get confused. They're probably more like house cats, for elitists and high end exotic pet owners.
Eh, I dunno about the issue; for as cool the LIGER's are, maybe it's best they weren't bred at all in captivity. I mean, if this was done in the wild, I probably would understand more, but for a hybrid animal bred in captivity and with no adaptive capability to survive 'en thrive in any particular enviornments in the world today (unless this was an ice age today, which I kinda think it would have better luck with a world that's long gone now), they'd probably be doomed to fail right at the start and meet their decline (as a species), disappearing into extinction. That's what I kinda think. I mean, why make something that wouldn't do well anywhere in the wild and is often confused for what they are? What kinda life is that for any animal to live? That's a moral question I think more people should ponder over now and then: ya know, like, "yeah, your scientists were so preoccupied with weather or not they can, they never stopped to think if they should." Lol😁. Sorry, I couldn't help with quoting that last part from Dr. Ian Malcom from Jurassic park, but I do think there's something there with his method of reasoning.
About the only thing having a LIGER is good for would be just for zoo attractions--that's it. Though would I create a new hybrid species that would often confuse itself with it's existence and wouldn't have a functional purpose in the wild, just to make money at a zoo for entertainment: no of course not. I think that might be too cruel to create the LIGER that has no real given purpose, or is always struggling with it's identity all of the time. I'd just leave the two parent species alone and let them live there lives where they're all from, and just let nature take it's course as it should be--nuff said
the common denominator in why ligers don't exist in the wild is humans..
So... maybe. They SHOULD be bred.. You don't want em in the backyard and such right? right? THAT is why they don't exist in the "wild".. whatever is left of that.
They are not confused. They don't care..that's like saying a child of mixed race is confused. Its weird.
Tiligers exist also.. and they revert to looking like a tiger..with spots.. cute asf..
LiLigers look like lions..but LONGGGGGGGG. and very VERY lean without the pounch. very curious and sweet..
Female tiligers are kinda short tho.. male tiligers are also long..and for some reason aggressive and super horny and sterileish..
Male Ligers may be sterile. not females..
a female has a greater chance at survival..
their vocalizations depend on who they are around..
if they grow up with a lion cub they will act more like a lion
same as if its a tiger cub..and if they are raised around neither they may intermingle vocalizations
the individual experience supersedes the species and instincts
This is a great look into evolution and how it works..
just remember for no less than 10,000 years humans have been killing everything with reckless abandon.
for about the last 200 years we started noticing evolution..
erase the idea that things dont mingle and intermingle with other species because humans tend to segregate everything.
Actually there has been spotted polar bears and grizzly hybrids. Ligers probably did happen in the past but because of people hunting lions and tigers to extinction, they've lost most of their territory. Lions and tigers use to span across almost everywhere. Basic information is out there like tigers only living in 6% of their original territory. And Lions completely eradicated, only only a small part of sub-continent India and African continent that still house them. If humans did not intervene and destroy nature for their own consumption, these 2 would've created large historical animals that would've became a dominant species. If we were to go 1 million more years into the future with the rapid expansion of large cats without human intervention, we would've seen more massive cat fossils that we thought were a completely different species from lion or tigers but in reality, we would categorized it as an "extinct large cat".
@@JaxxVsLions and tigers don't live on the same continent though. They'd never meet in the wild to breed anyway; they only came together and mated a liger because of human interference. So it's not a natural thing brought about by nature's order. And yes they do get confused, 'cause they don't know what they are--you heard what the narrator said. Lions don't take to waters as tigers do, and tigers don't live in pride groups like Lions. It should probably be tiger like in some cases, but the ligers size and overall build disadvantages the hybrid in the tigers enviornment. Ligers aren't fast and agile, they'd be sluggish and sloppy getting around trees in the jungle, where tigers don't have that kinda disadvantage ('cause they agile build and anatomy is adapted for the jungle enviornment).
I still doubt the lion pride would accept a liger as a member too, simply because a liger mixed with a lion and tiger charactoristic abilities wouldn't blend too well with the lion pride. Male Lions kill cubs that aren't their offspring and a strange adult large cat wouldn't become accepted as part of their pride either. Also ligers don't have apex like predatory instincts to hunt for big game. They're more like pampered house cats playing cat and mouse with something not much larger than a ferrel hog. That's why they wouldn't last in the wild... in neither habitats. They'd never adapt well to a jungle habitat, due to lacking the same advantages the tigers have and they'd starve to death even if they were placed in the fields of the African Savanah, 'cause they wouldn't have the same experiences of hunting prey as Lions in their pride and they wouldn't go after the preferred prey items to fill their metabolism cycle. Look man, they're cool animals no doubt (I won't argue with that), but I don't think ligers are as successful as a species, not as their parent crossed species are.
@@mattmccune3087 they do.. asian lions and tigers.. there are both in the middle east too..or there was
@@Lena-vw6ye Yeah, Fairly decent chance. they said the SAME about Polars and grizzlys..less than 100 years later.
I don’t understand how do they or would even know that Ligers are or were confuse if they were lions or Tigers? Isn’t that something they would have to say? I doubt they are worrying what are they more lion or a tiger.
They do say that they are confused
Base on what we know of Ligers and their sociability. They definitely seem to be more akin to being pack hunters as they cherish company. They seem to me to be basically lions with a boosted tiger physique. So they'd do best in a Lion Habitat in a pack. Theoretically anyways.
If it weren't for their health problems, then I could see a program for ligers to be trained for a life in the wild. It would be similar to the rewilding program Save China's Tigers that's currently training the last South Chinese tigers to be wild again.
What about tigons?
@@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 Tigons also have health problems and live shorter lifespans than lions, tigers, and even ligers.
@@dynamoterror18 your telling me that tigons, a more healthy looking animal, has a shorter lifespan then the obese McDonald's cat known as the liger? That makes no sense
@@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 Actually scratch that later bit, that's what one source says. In another source I just learned they tigons live just as long as tigers. My bad for that bit. But they still have health issues just as bad as ligers that would prevent them from a life in the wild.
There was a project where a female tiger was released in Africa. She attacked mostly Zebras and Wilderbeasts. So a assuming something like this happens again and the tigress mates with a lion. I assume the ligers will be smart enough to go for zebras and wilderbeasts just like their mom
My thoughts on this would be questioning if ligers somehow were able to breed with eachother even tho it was said that male ligers can’t fertilize. Meaning that they cudnt breed with eachother in the wild. The only chance a liger would have is to mate with a lion from a pride. Another theory is that ligers would have to adapt to there environment if they were to live in Africa. I believe if zoos fed ligers live prey they wudnt no what to do unless they saw a tiger or lion take it down. Then there instincts wud kick in and start doin the same thing to prey in the wild. So do i believe they could live in the wild and be able to fend for themselves and successfully claim territories and hunt there own prey? Yes. But it would take a long time for them to adjust an thrive. Imo
This breed is man made and man contaminates everything he touches. This thing should be allowed to die out of existence and never crossed bred again...its discusting!
Ligers have bread with lions and tigers. They are called li-ligers and ti-ligers.
They look like something you'd see from the Pleistocene era. A real life sabre tooth cat. Such beautiful animals
Unethical in general, sterile (for the most part) and their size + weight, though seemingly an advantage, would actually be detrimental depending on environment, where their only options would be hunting big game, and in majority of regions, large herbivores are dangerous, meaning it would be risking it's life every time it needs food.
I think the very best case scenario would be a liger cub being raised by a pride of lions from birth. This would allow for the cub to be nurtured and learn from the lions and rely on them for food until they could grasp hunting themselves. Even better if it were one of those super prides in Africa that hunt elephants.
Tigers and lions used to coincide in parts of India and in the region where Asia and Southern Europe meet. The latter is far longer ago, but humans were around then and actually left records. In the case of India, Indian lions and tigers still overlapped into the colonial period.
No hybrid populations have ever been recorded, though in both areas there are ancient tales of particularly big individual cats.
*Edit* : female ligers, unlike their brothers, are usually fertile. I guess by now genetic evidence of crossbreeding would have been found.
Still they reside together in India in Wild
Tigers just fought the lions off.
This narrator sounds like he's trying to sell me a liger on a TV shopping channel at 2am.
Then liger could evolve or change over time and it will create a new generation or species of lions overtime and it will be a bigger species and also it would have the mindset of a lion and a tiger more leaning to a lion but the body of a tiger that would be useful where it could thrive. I know and also it can learn and they could also be a purebred overtime win evolution will allow it to breed with others then it wouldn’t be a hiker it would be something that was I believe
To evolve they have to survive and reproduce, the fact these hybrids are possible but nonexistent in the wild is pretty good evidence they don’t have any evolutionary advantage
they cannot have own cubs, it is missing information in video
@@theoteddy9665 why
@@kasadam85 they are incapable of reproducing
@@kasadam85I forgot exactly what it is but pretty much certain animals of the same species can’t reproduce. It’s the same thing with Mules, you need another horse and donkey to make more of them. Same with Ligers which is why Ligers don’t exist in the wild
Acres of giant kitty's. Stunning 😎😎😎
A 2200 pound liger? Were these cats actually weighed? Sounds like speculation to me.
The heaviest human was 1400 pounds. Every liger is kept in captivity and is over fed and isn't allowed to exercise. It's not that crazy
Do bears in africa next
Ligers are pretty much my favorite animal!
~Napoleon Dynamite
Liger literally is how I imagined a sabertooth looks
I'd love to have a loyal pet liger.
Do tigers naturally mate with lions?
Forget it, it’s man splicing species again for fun.
No, they mated sexually. As have other hybrids in captivity.
One ton heavy cat ?? It'll hardly be able to hunt,you cannot be that big and able to hunt small agile preys,it can only snatch food from other predators
Why would it hunt small prey?
T-Rex were way heavier than elephant
In most cases a Liger is stuck in a situation much like the Saber tooth tiger was who became extinct as much smaller cats thrived as a result of being smaller & not requiring as much of a calorie intake. Although the Liger may survive for a while by finding a niche prey like an elk in Siberia where its big enough to take it down & keep up with it while enjoying the high caloric intake. However any predator or herbivore (like Panda or Kuala) are always endanger of completely being wiped out if their one food source also suffers heavy losses.
If a Liger was succesfully implemented into a pride, they'd definitrly rule until old age. But that is IF they can run as fast as Lions and Tigers. Because, the fact that it has a big size, the Ligers are gonna be more easily spotted than normal Lions.
So a Liger in the African envitioment would need to hunt with company, or at night.
However, if raised by a Tiger, and was out in thr Tiger's envirioment, it would thrive a lot better.
Yea thats right! a man made implant into a lion pride. How can you look at yourself in the mirror thinking such foolishness? This thing is a product of sin!
They won't need to hunt.
They'd just rule the pride, and enjoy the food which the pride hunts, at the cost of protecting the pride from rival lions.
I have to disagree on a couple of things: LIGER's (even though the tiger is their parent crossed species), ligers are much bigger, no where as fast 'en agile and all them trees in the jungle would disadvantage the LIGER due to their immense size, especially with effecting what ever little agility capability they actually have--they'ed be sluggish & sloppy. The reason why tigers can thrive in that kinda enviornment is because (yes even though they're fairly large is size), they're not freakishly huge (like ice age cat huge) and tigers are a lot more agile. Their physiology is adapted for that type of enviornment. Again, I say LIGER's don't have this same kinda advantage and what's more they wouldn't be able to hunt food the same way the tigers do--not at all.
If there was such thing as a purebred LIGER and they weren't raised in captivity, then yeah, they'd have a far better chance in the open fields of modern Africa today. Except none of that is actually true though. I mean for one, LIGER's are only bred in captivity and they actually lack the instincts of that of a super hunter, like a sabortooth cat/tiger/feline (whatever ya wanna call it), which were built for hunting down things like whooly mammoths and rhinos, and things of that nature; hunting elephants, rhinos, girafs and whatever big animals that live in Africa........ these would be ideal prey items for a LIGER this size, and with that type of build (this is what kinda diet their metablism requires), but they're more playful such as house cats and only go after things that are much smaller than they are--they play cat & mouse. Along the struggling with what they are as a species, this brings confusion to the hybrid creatures and they're pretty much spoiled rotten fed their entire lives, which diminishes any hunting instincts for anything larger than, say, a feral hog for example. They'd never make it long enough to thrive into the wild, they'd just starve themselves to death; they would never go after the ideal prey items that would satisfy their hunger metablism cycle.
Also to point out how irrelevant it would be to merge implement an indignious-hybrid species into the lion pride, because (yes even though their parent crossed species is also a lion) LIGER's are simply far too different in appearances to be accepted as part of their pride. Not as a cub... not as an adult--it doesn't matter. Male lions kill infant cubs that aren't their offspring. So there's no chances of raising a LIGER in the wild to hunt for food as they would do (they'd never become an accomplished apex predator this way)--not a chance. Adults would never be accepted, because instinctually LIGER's abilities of a tiger mixed with a Lion would never fit in with the pride very well anyway & for starters. They don't look entirely the same as African lions (that's another thing 'cause acceptance in recognition of it's very own species is crucial), that's very important with creatures in the animal kingdom. Just because you blood... doesn't mean you family. No a LIGER would be turned down, if not killed first by the pride itself.
Honestly and truly, I don't think the LIGER should have ever been bred in captivity. They are cool animals, don't get me wrong, but they'll never be successful. Why crossbreed a hybrid animal that has no significant environmental role in regards to habitat? Why make something that has zero adaptive capabilities, struggles with their identities, with little drive to become successful apex predators and keep them locked away behind gates & fences for animal zoo attractions all their lives? Why bother at all? The idea of it seems pretty cruel and if ya really think about it........... it isn't really worth it on our conscious morality, to bring into the world a confusing chimera with no productive-adapting role to play in the animal kingdom..... just to turn a money making profit scheme from it. It's questionable decision making plots like this that make me wanna turn in my running pants and get out of the human race. Just because we can make something, doesn't mean we really should.
They would be hunted by men if they were in the wild. Big game hunters would pay top dollar to bag one, legally or illegally.
this thing is a Monster! just like Fenrir, the Midgard serpent, and sliepnir the eight legged steed of Odin. Two of These monsters were birth by loki and angribod . while the eight legged horse was birth by loki through other (very)gross circumstance. the ligar is a monster/giant. it has no value to poachers and hunters and it will be a burdon on man by just eating allday doing nothing.
You should make a video describing whether or not jions can survive in the wild.
Well, considering the health problems these guys develop due to their size and whatnot, I doubt they would survive for very long, if at all.
A lot of those health problems would go away if they were not only allowed to run bit were forced to
@@Dc-kk9bd No, the health issues stem from genetics. This has been proven many times. The only people who have said otherwise are people like Mahamayavi Bhagavan Antle, who make a money out of breeding ligers and have been known to commit fraud and even animal abuse. The true reason is genetic. Certain genes and hormones controlling growth are carried by lions (Males' genes promote large growth, females' genes limit growth) that are not carried by tigers, so when a male lion is crossed with a female tiger, the counterpart to the lion's growth gene is absent and the resulting offspring grows much, much larger than either parent. That's why they're so humongous. Bigger isn't always better. If you are a big animal, you need to have the proper biological systems to support yourself AND be able to gather enough food to sustain yourself. Ligers cannot do either. From a realistic POV, an animal of this size with so many health issues would be extremely unlikely to survive in the wild.
As for the other health issues, many studies conducted by multiple biologists and organisations (Miles O’Brien, George Scharrel, Big Cat Rescue, Milián-García, Crown Ridge tiger, Deborah Leigh
, Ron Tilson, Lila Colston-Nepali, Valmik Thapar etc) show that hybrid animals like ligers often obey Haldane's rule, and usually suffer from organ failure, neurological deficits, breathing problems, sterility, cancer, and arthritis.
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Because the father is a male Lion, a Liger's max growth size can be huge. Especially in the wild.
But tigers are bigger than lions
Size is due to tigress
@aggressive Lion They still have growth inhibiting genes. It's why they don't keep growing.
@@rlclanofficial4924 not much the average male siberian tiger weight at 220kg the average male lion weight at 210 kg
a male lion’s sperm has imprinted growth genes saying “grow really big!” This usually meets a female lion’s egg that has imprinted genes saying “don’t grow too much.” This combination cancels each other out and makes an average sized lion. if it wasn't for the lioness the average male lion would be 300-450kg like ligers
There’s a T and an L, now all we need is an N
The coding of Panthera DNA allows for this mix. We haven't created Ligers, they were already coded for in DNA.
Lions and tigers are diverged by habitat. Neither habitat is prohibitive to either cat.
A population of ligers introduced into either environment would, over a very short time revert to the dominant form.
And there is still at least one place in India where tiger and lion habitats still overlap, so it's not _impossible_ that wild-born ligers popped up in the past on rare occasion.
@@Thoralmir actually, it is impossible. Though both can be found in India, both of their territories are FAR away from each other. That's why we don't hear anything about wild ligers
@@shreb6182 A really interesting theory from tiger expert Valmik Thapar even puts into question wether lions were even truly native to India at all, or the result of the Indian nobility importing them for menageries and hunting parks. He points out that lions usually appear near humans or in a human context and that there aren't many records of them in the wild, and they only appear after a certain point in time in art and records. Prior to that, there's no trace of them in the fossil record, local (cave) art or folklore, unlike tigers and leopards. He also points out that, even though its claimed that lions were hunted to extinction, there exist very few stories of them being hunted (unlike tigers, which were very well-recorded) and that native Indian hunters and European explerors alike often brought up the fact lions were largely absent in India.
imagine a lion and a tigress raising the liger in the wild together and teaching it how to hunt then it could probably survive
They would be excellent at protecting their pride, but largely useless at hunting. Not to mention they'd have to consume vast quantities of meat to fuel their massive bodies.
If they hunted in prides and ambushed their prey like lions and hunted large slow prey like Buffalo they could easily survive.
@@RandySavagxe that thing would die of a heat stroke just walking
@@hungrywolf1517 obviously they wouldn’t be able to run fast for long distances. but the ligers you see never have to hunt so they are fat and out of shape.
@@RandySavagxe lions are the largest predators in the Savannah for a reason, any bigger and you won't be able to catch anything because your heart would explode. The heat is too much. Ligers would die walking in that heat.
@@hungrywolf1517 idk y that was funny😂😂😂😂😂
You didn't mention that ligers (and tigons too) are infertile. That's the reason they can only be bred with human intervention pairing tigers and lions. Especially since tiger and lion ranges usually don't overlap (except maybe in India?) so they wouldn't have the chance to mate in the wild. Grolar/Pizzly bears and coywolves occur in nature because these hybrids are fertile, and grizzly, polar bear, wolf and coyote ranges can and do overlap.
They would definitely not survive in the world, their bones cant support their bodied in a sprint, plus they lack the millions of years of evolution of surviving like other cats
@HUB GOBLIN Evolution is, in fact, real, and denying evolution is like saying the Earth is flat.
@Amos Zahirovic that's literally not enough to survive. Survival isn't just about "I'm bigger so I live longer" it's about the advantages that animals get from evolution. Ligers may be fast but they have ENORMOUS amounts of health issues, like weak bones, lesser stamina, gigantic size, inability to reproduce. They just can't thrive
@@minutemansam1214 it’s fake you have no proof of it
@@minutemansam1214 and evolution it’s self sounds stupid
I think that they'll survive in Africa, where lion lives due to their fur colouring, and might be assimilate to the lion's pride
I think it could be a niche predator. Solitary lions can and do live outside a pride but not as successfully and definitely not on the open plains. This is not an animal capable of running down a deer as a tiger or lioness can.
The fact that he said that theyre records saying they get up to 2200 lbs but the worlds biggest Liger is 900 lbs.... LOL
Could Komodo Dragons survive in Africa?
Bro
Yes
Did you release some in Africa bro?
@@olajong2315 The less you know, the better.
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there are some animals that fit the bill "Big fish in a small pond" the Komodo dragon is one example, another one is the jaguar, these 2 especially, they are only at the top of the foodchain because they have no rivals, no competition, so to answer your question, NO, komodo dragons would go extinct fast in africa, any predator could beat it, nile crocs, that goes without saying, lions, leopards, hyenas, even cheetahs i would say, african rock pythons, african wild dogs, they all would take out a komodo dragon
You forgot about how they were bred for their skills in magic. That's why I like them the best.
I hope that one day we could find ways to help hybrids reproduce. It's a bummer that nature has a built in "can't reproduce past this point mechanism" for certain animal combo's.
I see half white half black woman get pregnant, I think that's a lie
@@kasadam85 cause we are the same species you racist
I don’t think we should be messing with animals in this way. Ligers suffer from so many health issues and can’t even produce cubs. Nature has it right from the get go. Human interference in this way is only going to cause problems. I think more focus should be on saving lions and tigers, not mixing their genes together.
@@thegodquestion4503 Oh please. A bengal tiger and a white tiger are more genetically similar to each other then most of the different races of humans are. But for some reason we classify them as being different species of the same animal but not ourselves.
@@thegodquestion4503 biologically they are not the same. One can survive in intense sun heat the other would die…. Chemically they are different.
yes they could survive and thrive
Ligers wouldn’t survive without a pack and even then it would take a massive amount of successful hunts to maintain theirselves. They’re way too bulky and slow to chase anything down. There’s a reason there aren’t any in the wild.
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They are nothing but large, strength, speed, agility, are all things they would lack in comparison to wild big cats
Ligers are just as fast. Look it up. Also... Ligers could steal kills from other predators ALL DAY.
@@principlemethods5281 shut up bro
@@Pawsandtales321 aren't ligers genetically healthier than tiger or lions? Don't they live longer as well?
@@principlemethods5281 no they can suffer from many health issues. It’s not natural to be twice the size as your parents. That is also why they can suffer from organ failure, mainly in the extra large specimens. Lions and tigers are natural and therefore have better genetics.
@@Pawsandtales321 Cats just lack stamina, period. That isn't something that puts the liger at any serious disadvantage. Also, while ligers TEND to suffer from health problems, not all of them do and many live long, healthy lives. I still condemn intentionally breeding lions and tigers.
Scenario :
You walking your Liger encountering another human
Liger : Roar Roar
Other Human :Aaahhh (frightened)
You : Don't worry it just wants to play
:-D
Ligers will most likely go extinct if released into the wild. They are too slow due to their massive size and I consider them less viable than lions overall. Being big is the only thing they got going for them but this size has its limits. Their docile nature will stop them from being able to defend themselves and only have the mental strength to kill things smaller than itself. Unless it adapted to its new lifestyle in the wild I doubt they’ll get that far.
Also it’s a Cape buffalo in the video which are much stronger and aggressive than water buffalos.
This is basically what the American Lion, Panthera Atrox, looked like.
They remind me of the saver toothed cat. They’d definitely rely on ambush and subduing their prey before killing in order to successfully hunt. That belly fat makes them one chonky cat 😂
I imagine they'd live similiar to the Sabre Tooth life style after a few generations of wild
A liger,raised in captivity by humans,if released to the wild,would die of starvation waiting to be fed.
Captivity ruins their innate hunting abilities and I guess it also depends on where they're released.
A Liger could survive in the wild if it was part of a healthy pride!
They can survive in the wild if only we feed them🤣
Ur another joke
Ligars can survive in the wild. Their immense size will even deter a small pride of lions from attacking them. Food should not be a problem either. They will simply scare away predators from their kills and scavenge. The only problem is that they are usually sterile.
I want a Liger. I’d name him Montecore.
First of all they would do just fine in the wild just as lions do when re-introduced to the wild. It would be better suited for the plains of Africa then the jungles of Asia just because of its camouflage
Not agile or fast enough for open plains would need a rain forest or something similar with a large enough food supply
@@louiscooper2488 They can run as fast as lions. They'd do fine in that department.
@@louiscooper2488 it would hunt Cape Buffalo and do just fine most likely live in prides like lions. But unfortunately like most hybrids it’s probably sterile
@@minutemansam1214 they dong have agility they have the musles too take off running but they cant turn at high speed there build and size makes that near impossible heck even seberian huge male tigers struggle with turning at high speeds there masses just not practical at all.
Besides that cape buffelo still are massive compared too ligers and sinds they dont have the agility of lions, they just get hit easier then them if they fight the liger ofcourse.
😍I love ligers😍
With their incredible size, beautiful stripes, and gentle personality.
Could they survive in the wild?
100% NO
Due to the fact that's its man made; meaning they're usually found in enclosures and zoos.
Plus, a lion's habitat and a tigeress's habitat don't connect.
Finally, they're usually gentle and not at all deadly; in other words it's acts like a couch-sized kitten
However, they're have been some accidents of Liger attacks. But this "aggression" is due to grumpyness
In a fight I’ll probably take the Tiger 7 out of 10 times over a Lion
You would lose.
@@TheHitman- He's right. Tigers tend to dominate lone lions in both the wild and in captivity.
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Ligers are sort of like a pug. They are cool to look at but the animal is suffering in every way. For the pug its brachycephaly which causes the pug to constantly suffocate itself and for the Liger its neurological defects, sterility, cancer, arthritis, organ failure and diminished life expectancy.
And here we have a new generation of ligers and tigons, the li-tigons and ti-ligers, hope they'll have a better chance to live in the wild
Most of the video shown of Lions, with water buffalo and zebras are reserved areas. Animals don't work within small space of eachother like that in the wild. Plus when the Liger is hungry, Trust me, he will learn to use those weapons full force
7:47 The lioness in the back 😂
Lion + Tiger = an animal that is shaped strangely but creepy
I think ligers would replace lions as the king of the jungles and would become the new apex predictor. Also I do think they could happen in the wild between a Asian lion and a Bengal tiger.
I can't wait to see a full grown liger hunt. It would be breath taking literally. Just imagine you are a park ranger and you're on patrol and then there it is face to face eyeball to eyeball a LIGER. that would have been the end of wild life park rangers. You know why? Well its because Ligers would start to hunt humans if prey is scares
I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time taking this seriously. Just because the narrator's voice is so intense.
Feels like I'm watching Spike TV back in 2008.
EDIT: Also, the primordial pouch may look silly, but it's nothing to laugh at. It's a very beneficial bit of anatomy for felines to have. It protects their organs from injury, and acts as a fat reserve. Like a swinging suit of armor.
A liger/ligers could survive in the wild by pushing other predators off their kills similarly to ice age bears
It would be interesting to see how a liger would stack up against a bear (grizzly to larger).
Never had hunted doesn't mean Ligers cannot hunt. Instincts kicks in.
What an amazing animal 🦓
this guys throat after the recording must be sobbing
It would be amazing to see them in the wild. Although I think they are so massive and need so much food, they cant survive in the current wildlife ecosystem.
Would be cool to see a male liger in a coalition of 3-4 other male lions - they would be able to bring down buffalo with ease. Problem is during feeding time it would be a shit show.
Damn lion king ending 😂😂 mufassa certainly Didn't do well with buffalos lol
I think it would manage to survive in the African Savannah if raised since childhood
I feel like this narrator is using this video as interview material for a radio job
Give them the chance to live and hunt free and im sure they will adapt
A liger has potential as a scavenger.
The devs are buffing predators
If it was born in the wild and not in containment then mabye it would be the apex predator we believe it to be
If a liger adapts to its environment it can definitely survive in Africa if it’s solitary ligers can run 55 mph fast enough to catch prey for sure