Tigon

A male tiger crossed with a lioness, the liger's reverse. Where the liger outgrows both parents, the tigon inherits growth-limiting genes and does not exceed their size, a neat demonstration that which parent is which matters. As with ligers, males are sterile and females fertile: Rudrani, a tigon born at Alipore Zoo in India in the early 1970s, was bred to an Asiatic lion and produced seven litigons in her lifetime. Tigons are found only in captivity, because tiger and lion ranges do not overlap today, though Asiatic lions once shared India with Bengal tigers.