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If two Ligers mate and produce offspring, considering how much larger Ligers are than Lions and Tigers would it be likely that the offspring of two Ligers would be larger than the Liger offspring of a Lion and a Tiger at time of birth?

If it would be larger, would it be likely that the larger Liger/Liger offspring would grow to a larger size than it's parents considering the absence of the size-inhibiting gene?
>> Anonymous
"Because only female ligers and tigons are fertile, a liger cannot reproduce with another liger or with a tigon. The sterility in males is caused by the fact that because of the unstable genes, male ligers never reach puberty. While they continue to age and grow they do not become sexually mature."
>> Anonymous
>>237314
Do they mature mentally?

That'd be a huge kitty.
>> Anonymous
>>237312
Even if male Ligers/Tigons aren't sterile, their offspring would probably revert to their original tiger/lion form.
>> Anonymous
>>237338
no that is not a possible genotype that could occur, think of it this way, a liger is a lion/tiger, so a liger and liger mix could have either
liger/liger
liger/tiger
liger/lion
lion/tiger - which is just a liger again

So basically you have equal chances of getting another liger, a liger with more tiger features, a liger with more lion features, or one huge mother fucking pure liger
>> Anonymous
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>>237340

Liger genetics does not work that way. Goodnight.
>> Anonymous
>>237340

If genetics really worked this way, that would be scary.
>> Anonymous
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>>237340
Yea thats a bit off.

This picture depicts what would happen. Same is true for Liger-Lion cross
>> Anonymous
Genetics is so simple when you treat an animal's entire genetic structure as a single gene.
>> Anonymous
It's true you usually shouldn't think of an animals genetics in the case of just one gene, but in a case like this it is probably best to use the example of mules. Mules as you probably know are the cross between a horse and a donkey, and almost always sterile. But occusionaly you'll come across a female that can mate back with a donkey or a horse. Usually in the case of those individuals the set of chromosomes from the horse and the donkey line up just right as so they seperate to form gametes with only genetic information from one of the crossed species. Thus if they follow the same sort of hybrid genetics, it would follow logic that a liger tiger cross would create offspring that are tigers half the time and ligers the other half.
>> Anonymous
Ligers are actually sterile.

so even if they did have hot liger sex, no liger babies would happen
>> Anonymous
so their like the mules of the big cat world?
cool!
>> Anonymous
uhh. . . I think ligers are sterile, in otherwords, they CAN'T mate.
>> Anonymous
ligers dont enter puberty
>> Anonymous
ligers are sterile
>> Anonymous
>>237312
That's a big pussy.
>> Anonymous
>>237398
lol yea
>> Anonymous
>>237422
>>237449
>>237455


You people are idiots.

1. Sterile doesn't mean not horny. There are many male crosses of all species that hump despite being sterile.
2. A MALE liger is sterile. A female liger is not. There are third, fourth and even fifith generation crosses kicking around.

LEARN TO GOOGLE/READ.

http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-cats.htm