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Ligers Anonymous
Best feline ever?
>> Anonymous
>>319693

hooks + handjobs = hilarious.
>> Anonymous
That thing is RIDICULOUS. Look how small it's back legs are for how huge that thing is.
>> Anonymous
No, they would never survive in the wild. They are too heavy to run fast enough to catch large prey and they lack the endurance to do so anyway. They eat much more than either of their parents, too.
>> Anonymous
>>319721
true, but wouldn't he be able to survive eating rests, like hyenas do?
>> Anonymous
>>319725
Hyenas fucking hunt. That thing could at best hope to scare some weaker beasts off the kill. Lions do that with hyenas all the time, but they have a whole pride to pull that off. I'm not sure if ligers are even social.
>> Anonymous
>>319727
i tought hyenas were scavengers


about the social thing...i dought they're social, cause there are no ligers in the wild :s
>> Anonymous
>>319730
Hyenas are hunters and scavengers. They hunt anything that isn't strong or fast enough and start eating it while it is still screaming in pain. On the other hand they will even take bleached bones when nothing else is there to eat.
>> Anonymous
>>319730

Like most African predators, they are opportunistic. If they can kill something, they try/do. If they can steal something, they try/do.
>> Anonymous
>>319744
And if something is so dead and rotten that not even the vultures will take it, they'll eat it.
>> Autistic Liger
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Huuuuuurhhhh
>> Autistic Liger
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BLAAAARGHHHH
>> Anonymous
>>319759
Sigfried/Roy/tiger hybrid. I wish they kept their dick out of those animals.
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>>319730
>>319737
It's one of those sad old stereotypes still upheld by the media: Lions are the brave and pure hunters and hyenas the scraggly vile carrion-stealing scavengers. WRONG! It's much more common for a pride of lions to steal the hyena pack's kill than the other way round. Hyenas actually do more hunting than scavenging, and are very adept pack hunters. Their killing tactics are no different from that of most pack-hunting canids, as gruesome as they are (not that hyenas are canids, they are actually more closely related to mongooses.)

Apparently hyenas get all the bad rep and lions stead the spotlight because big felines are photogenic and the hyenas are not.
>> Anonymous
>>319757
>>319759
are you sure thats a Liger? doesn't look the one in the op picture or other pictures I've seen.
Just looks like a Siberian Tiger with down syndrome
>> Anonymous
>>319777


all animals are fotogenic , IMO, but it's true, hyenas have the bad rep
>> stubbs !!jvCuWJ8NrnK
>>319777
The mongoose comment, is that true?
I tried looking it up and found that Hyenas are classified in the suborder Feliformia in the family Hyaenidae. Mongoose are in the suborder Feliformia, family Herpestidae.

Maybe I'm a taxonomy freak but they branch off at feliformia. If you have further info I'd be interested, though. Goddamn I love classification/taxonomy.
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>>319757
>>319759
spot the difference
>> Anonymous
I see ligers but no tions. I always thought hyenas were more related to bears, google?
>> Anonymous
>>319785
Well, if you continue looking on wikipedia at least, you'll see that though mongooses, canids, and hyenas are all in different families under the order Carnivora, hyenas and mongooses are both that same suborder, Feliformia, and superfamily, Herpestoidea. I'm pretty sure distinctions like that are for some reason, though I'm not exactly sure how much closer they are related due to that.
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>>319693
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>>319693
Lion Tiger meet Tiger Lion
>> Anonymous
We've seen the Liger now where is the Tigon?
>> Anonymous
>>319848
Refer to>>319831
>> Anonymous
>>319757
>>319759

What has science done?
>> Anonymous
>>319785
Yes, the mongoose comment is true. Modern cladistics uses the ancestor-based method of classification, so animals are classified according to the last common ancestor. This places Herpestidae (mongooses) as the sisters of Hyaenidae (hyenas), since they share a later common ancestor than, say, Hyaenidae and Viverrinae.

Check it out: http://www.palaeos.org/Carnivora
>> Anonymous
>>319831
tigon?
>> Anonymous
WHY CANT I HAVE A PET LION OR PUMA OR WHATEVER GODAMN.

i love cats but i want one the size of a fucking car.
>> Anonymous
>>319730
I believe that the only true obligate scavenger alive today is the vulture.
>> Anonymous
>>320213
What about hagfish?
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pallas cats are fun
>> Anonymous
>>320219
>>320213
The only non-aquatic obligate scavengers are vultures. Or actually, vulture-like birds in general. The New World vultures aren't vultures at all, they're a convergently evolved group of carrion birds.
>> Anonymous
lol u tk him 2da bar|?
>> Anonymous
jesus christ....