A MALE LION-TIGER HYBRID OF A MALE LION AND TIGRESS. 
The first cver bred. 
LION-TIGER HYBRIDS. 
By HW. A. BRYDEN. 
YBRIDS from the mating of lon and tiger are by no means common. In the 
wild state they are unheard of, although in parts of Asia these animals were, and 
still are, occasionally found in the same haunts; and even in captivity, where cubs 
from the coupling of the two species have been produced, these mixed offsprmg have 
been usually poor specimens, very difficult of rearing. It has remained for one of the 
most enterprising collectors and naturalists of our time, Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, not only 
to breed, but to bring successfully to a healthy maturity, specimens of this rare alliance 
between those two great and formidable felidw, the lion and tiger. The illustrations 
will indicate sufficiently how fortunate Mr. Hagenbeck has been in his efforts to produce 
these hybrids. The oldest 
and biggest of the animals 
shown is a hybrid born on 
the 11th May, 1897. This 
fine beast, now more than 
five years old, equals and 
eyen excels in his proportions 
a well-erown hon, measuring 
as he does from nose to tip of 
tail 10ft. 2im. in length, and 
standing only three inches 
less than 4ft. at the shoulder. 
A good big wild hon will 
weigh about 400lbs.— Mr. 
Selous gives the length of a 
lion shot by himself as ft. 
1lin., its height as 3ft. 8in., 
A SEL CRE ; and its weight as 410lbs.— 
Born 3th April, 1902. Fran, een age of four weeks, and it 1s probable that i 
being suckled by a terrier bitch. very exceptional cases lions 
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