One of Australia's only two "tigons," a man-made hybrid created by crossing a male tiger with a lioness, licks its lips at the National Zoo in Canberra.
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However, most of these lovely and adorable creatures die young or are prone to birth defects.
In 2015, three ligers (male lion and female tiger) were born at the Sochi zoo. When their mother refused to feed them, a black Labrador was called into help raise them.
Hybrid cubs were also born in 2013 in Novosibirsk. Only this time, their mother was also a liger.
