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Peculiar hybrids were created: ligers (male lion-female tiger), tigons (male tiger-female lion), tiligers (male tiger-female liger) and, in 2013, the nation's first liligers, the offspring of a male lion and a female liger.
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oregonlive.com,
13 July 2019
There’s also the tigon, which has a lion mother and tiger father.
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Ilnar Salakhiev,
National Geographic,
24 Feb. 2017
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Search [offspring of female lion male tiger] to find this is called a tigon (or tiglon).
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Ken Denmead,
WIRED,
13 Jan. 2012
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oregonlive.com,
13 July 2019
There’s also the tigon, which has a lion mother and tiger father.
—
Ilnar Salakhiev,
National Geographic,
24 Feb. 2017
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [offspring of female lion male tiger] to find this is called a tigon (or tiglon).
—
Ken Denmead,
WIRED,
13 Jan. 2012
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“Tigon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tigon. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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