Rudhrani produced seven litigons in her lifetime. The rare, second generation hybrid was called a litigon. Like the liger, male tigons are sterile while the females are fertile.Īt the Alipore Zoo in India, a tigoness named Rudhrani, born in 1971, was successfully mated to a male Asiatic lion named Debabrata. The female cub was then raised to adulthood. Guggisberg wrote that ligers and tigons were long thought to be sterile in 1943, however, a 15-year-old hybrid between a lion and an "Island" tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo. Tigons do not exceed the size of their parent species because they inherit growth-inhibitory genes from both parents, but they do not exhibit any kind of dwarfism or miniaturization they often weigh around 180 kilograms (400 lb), compared to ligers which often weigh from 320 kilograms (710 lb) to 550 kilograms (1,210 lb) It is distinct from the liger, which is a hybrid of a male lion and a female tiger. Any mane that a male tigon may have will appear shorter and less noticeable than a lion's mane and is closer in type to the ruff of a male tiger. They exhibit visible characteristics from both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for spots – lion cubs are spotted and some adults retain faint markings) and stripes from the father.
A tigon ( / ˈ t aɪ ɡ ən/), tiglon ( / ˈ t aɪ ɡ l ən/), or tion ( / ˈ t aɪ ən/) ( portmanteau of tiger and lion) is the hybrid offspring of a male tiger ( Panthera tigris) and a female lion ( Panthera leo).
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