Ejestrand

Jag höll på att kolla runt på internet och hittade av en slump någon som nämde djuret "Liger". Jag har själv aldrig hört talas om det innan så jag blev nyfiken och kollade upp vad det var, och blev minst sagt chockad när jag fick veta att det är en unge mellan en lejonhane och en tigerhona. WTF!?
Jag som bara trodde det gick att korsa åsna och häst, och varg och hund eftersom dem är så lika i deras genetiska struktur. Men att man aldrig har tänkt att det går mellan kattdjur... det borde ju ha varit självklart ju. Men icke då!

Bara för det var jag tvungen att leta efter mer katthybrider och hittade att det fanns hur många olika som helst o_O

Panthera hybrid

The four living species of Panthera genus (Panthera leo (Lion), Panthera onca (Jaguar), Panthera pardus (Leopard), Panthera tigris (Tiger) may produce a number of hybrid crosses. These hybrids are often given a compound name reflecting their breeding, while at other times they bear a more traditional name.

Jaguar and leopard hybrids

Jagupard

A jagupard, jagulep, or jagleop, is the hybrid of a jaguar and a leopardess. A single rosetted, female jagupard was produced at a zoo in Chicago. Jaguar-leopard hybrids bred at Hellbrun Zoo, Salzburg were described as jagupards which conforms to the usual portmanteau naming convention.

Leguar

A leguar, or lepjag, is the hybrid of a male leopard and a female jaguar. The terms jagulep and lepjag are often used interchangeably regardless of which animal was the sire. Numerous lepjags have been bred as animal actors as they are more tractable than jaguars.

Lijagulep

The female of jagulep or lepjag are fertile, and when one of them is mated to a male lion, the offspring are referred to as lijaguleps. One such complex hybrid was exhibited in the early 1900s under the name of a Congolese Spotted Lion, hinting at some exotic African beast rather than a man-made hybrid.

On April 9, 2006, two Jaglions were born at Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, Barrie (north of Toronto), Ontario, Canada. Jahzara (female) and Tsunami (male) were the result of an unintended mating between a black jaguar called Diablo and a lioness called Lola who had been hand-raised together and were inseparable. They were kept apart when Lola came into oestrus. Tsunami is spotted, but Jahzara is a melanistic jaglion due to inheriting the jaguar's dominant melanism gene. It was not previously known how the jaguar's dominant melanism gene would interact with lion coloration genes.

Liguar

A liguar is the offspring of a male Lion and a female Jaguar. Liguars are the most common lion/jaguar hybrid. They are also not as big as most exotic breeds or hybrids.

Leoliguar

When the fertile offspring of a male lion and female jaguar, mates with a leopard, the resulting offspring is referred to as a "leoliguar".

Jaguar and tiger hybrids

At the Altiplano Zoo in the city of San Pablo Apetatlan (near Tlaxcala, México) the crossbreeding of a male Siberian tiger and a female jaguar from the southern Chiapas jungle produced a male tiguar named Mickey. Mickey is on exhibition at a 400 m2 habitat and as of June 2009, is two years old and weighs 180 kg (397 lb).

Leopard and lion hybrids

Leopon

A leopon is the result of breeding a male leopard with a female lion, or lioness. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the body carries similarities to leopards. Leopons are very rare.

Lipard

A lipard or liard is the proper term for a hybrid of a male lion with a leopardess. It is sometimes known as a reverse leopon. The size difference between a male lion and a leopardess usually makes the mating of the two difficult.

A lipard was born in Schoenbrunn Zoo, Vienna in 1951. The father was a 2 year old 250 kg lion 1.08 m tall at the shoulders and 1.8 m long (excluding tail). The mother was a 3.5 year old leopardess weighing only 38 kg. The female cub was born overnight on 26/27 August 1982 after 92–93 days gestation. The mother began to over-groom the cub and later bit off its tail. The cub was then hand-reared. The parents mated again in November 1982 and the leopardess appeared pregnant, however the lion continued to mate her and they had to be kept apart.

Another lipard was born in Florence, Italy (it is often erroneously referred to as a leopon). It was born on the grounds of a paper mill near Florence to a lion and leopardess acquired from a Rome zoo. Their owner had 2 tigers, 2 lions and a leopardess as pets and did not expect or intend them to breed. The lion/leopard hybrid cub came as a surprise to the owner who originally thought the small spotted creature in the cage was a stray domestic cat. The cub had the body conformation of a lion cub with a large head (a lion trait) but receding forehead (a leopard trait), fawn fur and thick brown spotting. When it reached 5 months old, the owner offered it for sale and set about trying to breed more.

Leoligulor

The male Leopon is in fact a fertile offspring of a male leopard and a female lion. The fertile female liguar, offspring of a female jaguar and male lion, is capable of fertilization by a Leopon. This rare instance results in a Leoligulor.

Leopard and tiger hybrids

Dogla

The name dogla is used for a supposedly natural hybrid offspring of a tiger and a leopard or possibly a leopard with aberrant patterns.

There is anecdotal evidence in India of offspring resulting from leopard to tigress matings. The supposed hybrids are called "dogla". Indian folklore claims that large male leopards sometimes mate with tigresses. A supposed dogla was reported in the early 1900s. Many reports are probably large leopards with abdominal striping or other striped shoulders and body of a tiger. One account stated, "On examining it, I found it to be a very old male hybrid. Its head and tail were purely those of a panther, but with the body, shoulders, and neck ruff of a tiger. The pattern was a combination of rosettes and stripes; the stripes were black, broad and long, though somewhat blurred and tended to break up into rosettes. The head was spotted. The stripes predominated over the rosettes." The pelt of this hybrid, if it ever existed, was lost. It was supposedly larger than a leopard and, though male, it showed some feminization of features which might be expected in a sterile male hybrid.

Tigard

A tigard is the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a leopardess. The only known attempts to mate the two have produced stillborns.

In 1900, Carl Hagenbeck crossed a female leopard with a Bengal tiger. The stillborn offspring had a mixture of spots, rosettes and stripes. In The Field No 2887, April 25, 1908, Henry Scherren wrote "A male tiger from Penang served two female Indian leopards, and twice with success. Details are not given and the story concludes somewhat lamely. 'The leopardess dropped her cubs prematurely, the embryos were in the first stage of development and were scarcely as big as young mice.' Of the second leopardess there is no mention. "

Lion and tiger hybrids

Liger

A liger is the offspring between a male lion and a female tiger. It looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes. Ligers are enormous because a male lion has a growth gene and the female (lioness) has a growth inhibitor, but the female tiger has no growth inhibitor. The liger is the largest feline hybrid, but the Siberian Tiger is the largest pure cat.

Tiglon

A tiglon is the hybrid of a male tiger and a female lion. The tiglon is not as common as the converse hybrid, the liger. Irrespective of what some incorrect beliefs are, the tiglon ends up to be smaller than both her/his parents because male tigers and female lionesses have a growth inhibitor. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tiglons were more common than ligers.

PS. All fakta har tagit från engelska wikipedia-sidan :)

Jävla förkylning! Kan den inte bara försvinna!!
Jag vill inte ha den längre ;/

Look what I just found!!!

I Thorpe Park i England öppnade dem den 18 mars attraktionen Saw - Alive, som tydligen ska vara "världens mest extrema skräcklabyrint".

Gäster som vågar sig in i labyrinten kommar att bli prövade till den yttersta gränsen, både psykologiskt och känslomässigt, när de går igenom sex runt där de mest ohyggliga och kultförklarade scenerna från de sex Saw-filmerna utspelar sig. Besökarna får delta i fasansdulla spel, vars enda syfte är att höja pulsen och injaga skräck. Den verklighetstrogna skräckfilmsupplevelsen kryddas ytterligare av vidriga stanker och makabra syner utspelade utspelade i miljöer direkt hämtade ur Saw-filmerna. De som har modet till det kommer få bevittna hur ett av Jigsaws offer möter sitt fruktansvärda öde innan de går vidare genom en elekrifierad korridor, där ett enda felsteg ger en verklig elektriskt stöt. På vägen ut ur labyrinten kommer besökarens alla sinnen störas av stämningshöjande musik, oljud och lukter.


Vem skulle vilja gå en sån labyrint egentligen? NO WAY!!!! :O

Om ni inte tror mig kan ni läsa det själva här:
http://www.sf.se/nyheter/nyhet/135594/Resa-foer-svaarskraemda