Ask & Tag: General Queries Posting Thread

[GuateGojira]

(04-12-2020, 08:45 PM)Sully Wrote: So I was listening to a podcast interviewing one of the main characters from tiger king and as an argument for the ethics of housing hybrids like ligers he mentioned that there has been genetic exchange post diversion between lions and tigers in relatively recent times (in the wild). Now this sounds like nonsense due to the many natural barriers that prevent hybridization (though it can happen) but I'd be bereft if I didn't just ask whether this is true? I think @GuateGojira can help me with this one

In fact, there is no evidence of wild hybrids between lions and tigers. There are a few paints in old art but that is not evidence at all, as they could be ligers/tigons breed in captivity just like the modern ones.

The guy that says that tigers and lions naturally breed in the wild is a big ignorant. There is no evidence of tiger and lions facing in the wild and even the old Indian litterature did not mention anything about that. The fact that these two cats share diferent habitats and that there are no records, stories or even "legends" about tigers with lions, shows that there was no interbreed between these two species.

Personally, the claim that tigers and lions breed in the wild is the must aberrant excuse for the breed of ligers in captivity!

Also I will like to add that if someone is seeing "Tiger King" in Netflix, DO NOT belive on it, it is full of incorrect information and several organizations for conservation are complaining about that. Even Dr John Goodrich allready stated his point of view about this series and is very negative. For me, Netflix is full of garbage, they made shows against my faith and now they are making shows that ignore the facts of conservation and suffering in captivity of my favorite animals (big cats overall) in behalf of a story that most of the time ignore the real problem and suffering that wild cats live in captivity, in behalf of a show and the intrege on it, and now there are hundreds of millenials that believe that they are" experts" about conservation just because those saw that single damn show!!! Reply