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(04-13-2020, 09:53 PM)Sully Wrote: @GuateGojira So I've found the website of the guy who made the claim as here is what is said
"While ligers have existed in the wild, they have not gone on to create a new species. Their most significant contribution seems to be as the vehicle which allowed lions and tigers to inherit adaptations from each other. Today, all lions carry tiger DNA and all tigers carry lion DNA. In order for this to happen, not only did ligers need to exist in the wild, they had to survive into adulthood and reproduce with both lions and tigers. The genes that were passed back and forth between species appear to have some beneficial purpose, otherwise they would not have persisted and spread to the full populations. Ligers exist in the wild today in as much as both lions and tigers are genetically partially hybrids."
It also adds
"Lions and tigers are not the only big cats to have hybridized. Historically (or prehistorically), all of the Panthera genus have introgressively hybridized. A research article published in Genome Research elaborates and explains the genetic evidence of ancient hybridization among the larger cats. Although the big cats share a common ancestor, and therefore a certain percentage of their genome, the big cats have also inherited genes from each other that did not exist in their common ancestor.
Oh my God!!! That is one of the biggest lies about great cats that I ever read!!!
This guy is crazy and a big liar, how he can say that ligers are useful because of that???
An he even missquote an article of something that happen millions of years BEFORE the current species separated once for all. This guy (girl?) is the perfect example of the wrong conservation efforts. I searched in the webpage that you put but I did not found any link where we can communicate with them, however we can see that his webpage is part of the T.I.G.E.R.S. center, which is one of the worst conservation projects ever and that guy Doc Antle is a joke!
This is the other side of the coin on the extintion of the species, creating big waves of ignorance amoung the common people.
