Captive Lion and Tiger weights

[Spalea]

@Hello :

Thank you for having answered. Thus yes, it seems some hybrids can be healthy.

But, as concerns the tendency of a general weakness of the offspring from such crossing, I have found the info which I spoke about, from the BBC: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4101049.stm

In this first link, dated from 2004, it is mentionned that the hybrids suffered from tuberculosis, and had a low immunity rate.

The second older link (2002) relates a mysterious disease which had affected 80 crossbred lions, slowly killing them all, as of this info date only 22 hybrids still survived but in a such state of weakness they were isolated from the other lions. Because too the indian law prohibits to kill these animals:

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14921421

May be some serious progress have been realised, because these both links explain that the crossbreds were stopped (by sterelising african male lions living with the asiatic females). Logically no one hybrids could have survived till now. Reply