An African lion and a Manchurian tiger gave birth to liger cubs at a wildlife reserve in eastern China earlier this month.
One male and one female survived, while two other cubs who were not born healthy died, Colorado’s Channel 9 News reported.
A liger is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger, which means it has parents of the same genus but different species. Ligers were popularized by the 2004 movie Napoleon Dynamite, whose main character Napoleon said a ligerwas “bred for its skills in magic.”
According to Chinese state television, there are only about 20 ligers alive today.
Zhou Xiaoguang, a feeder for the liger cubs, told Channel 9 that the cubs had been “struggling to survive” since their birth on May 13 but were “back to normal now.”
One male and one female survived, while two other cubs who were not born healthy died, Colorado’s Channel 9 News reported.
According to Chinese state television, there are only about 20 ligers alive today.
Zhou Xiaoguang, a feeder for the liger cubs, told Channel 9 that the cubs had been “struggling to survive” since their birth on May 13 but were “back to normal now.”
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