India, a tigoness named Rudhrani, born in 1971, was successfully mated to a male Asiatic lion named Debabrata. The rare, second-generation hybrid was called a litigon. Rudhrani produced seven litigons in her lifetime. Some of these reached impressive sizes - a litigon named Cubanacan weighed at least 363 kg, stood 1.32 m at the shoulder, and was 3.5 m in total length.

Coexistence of parental species

As with the liger, the tigon is found only in captivity, because

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