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weighs as much alone as the two parents together. They are 
powerful animals with strong heads, and are faintly striped. 
When people see them for the first time they wonder whether 
they are looking at lions or tigers. These queer creatures are 
unusually tame, and of a very mild disposition. According 
to our experiments thus far, they have unfortunately never 
been found to be fertile. 
The youngest of the Hagenbeck tamily. 
A cross between a panther and a puma was undertaken 
at my suggestion in a certain small English menagerie. A 
number of young ones were born, but they all died except 
one, and there was nothing very noteworthy about the sur- 
vivor. I have also heard of a cross between a tiger 
and a female panther, but the young one was born pre- 
maturely and had no vitality. I know of another similar case. 
In a small German menagerie there was quite a happy 
marriage between a lion and a female panther. The panther 
