• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    Ligers (products of male lions and female tigers), and tigons (product of female lions and male tigers).

    Male ligers are sterile, but female ones can reproduce. Same with tigons.

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        Those are the results of keeping individuals of both species and opposite sex in the same enclosure. The reproduction part happened all by itself.

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        I think you’re getting downvoted because you sound like a troll, but perhaps you just don’t understand something that most of us learn in primary school. Did you grow up homeschooled or in a country without basic education?

        If you’re not trolling, this isn’t your fault and people shouldn’t be downvoting you for asking questions.

        So long as you’re willing to learn, ignore the downvotes. You need to understand that your views on this are misinformed, though, and they sound based in religious fundamentalism.

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            I didn’t call you one. I was just saying that your comments may be taken that way.

            Are you serious about your question? In that case I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted. That’s all.

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        Not really experiments carried out by humans, more of a didn’t prevent it from happening.

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            Well, no one has tried to breed them so, the hybrids thatbwe have are from lions and tigers that did it of theor own accord. If you are having problems with the logic, seek out a veterinarian. They can explain how it happens at your level.

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              This kind of breeding isn’t observed in the wild because of them having different habitats, right? Or are there other reasons?

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            They don’t share territory currently, so no. Even before they barely shared territory, looking at some maps there is only slight overlap with the most eastern lions and most western tigers. Not sure if they shared that small overlap at the same time either.

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        It answers the question as asked. If you want something else, I think that it’s reasonable to ask you to qualify your question.

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        If the unnatural part refers to keeping them in the same area/habitat, and I’m not sure the animals in question would agree with it being disgusting as animals do what animals do.