NEWSLINK: More on the Russian Liliger

What's In Store For Russia's Little Lion-Tiger Hybrid?
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
But big-cat cross-breeding is not unheard-of in captivity. As they're different species, the resulting offspring are hybrids. Outside of the public imagination and a cottage industry, the lion-tiger hybrid is perhaps best-known as the favorite animal ...

NEWSLINK: More on the Russian Liliger

"Liliger" Born in Russia No Boon for Big Cats National Geographic But charming as the cuddly cub appears, ligers, liligers, and other mix-and-match felines raise serious concerns for advocates of big-cat conservation. Ligers are the result of a male lion mating with a female tiger. Craig Packer, director of the Lion ...

NEWSLINK: Worlds first Liliger (liger x lion) hybrid

Kiara, World's First Liliger, Born At Russian Zoo (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
It almost never works out for the individual cat and in the rare case that it does, the number of animals that had to suffer in order for this one rare cat to exist is staggering," Carole Baskin, founder of Big Cat Rescue, explains on the animal ...

The world's first liliger cub, a cross between a lion and a liger, has been born
CBBC Newsround
The baby big cat has been named Kiara and was born in a zoo. Zoo worker Rostislav Shilo said: "I think she has more tiger traits than lion traits." To make things even more confusing, Kiara is being raised by an ordinary domestic cat because her mother ...