Ligers are the world’s biggest cats, larger than their parents, with the strength of a lion and speed of a tiger combined. An average male liger stands almost 12ft tall on its hind legs and weighs up to half a ton, twice the weight of a wild lion or tiger. How did the liger appear? The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a tigress, or female tiger (Panthera tigris). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. A liger is a hybrid animal that results from the cross breeding of lion and tigress. Ligers are twice bigger than lions and tigers in terms of their weights. Ligers weigh more than 900 pounds.
