Ligers: A Cruelty Unveiled

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June 24, 2009

SUBSCRIBE for more animal videos! This is what facilities breeding ligers for exploitation do not want you to know. They lie to the public so they can gain money and fame. Don't fall for their tri...

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This is what facilities breeding ligers for exploitation do not want you to know. They lie to the public so they can gain money and fame. Don't fall for their tricks. Here are the facts. Please share this video so others may learn of this as well.

A liger results from a breeding between a male lion and a female tiger. Due to the hybridization, the animal lacks complete DNA, causing many health problems.

There are also birthing problems. The abnormal size of a liger cub may cause a miscarriage. If the liger cub comes out alive, many have been recorded to last only a few days or weeks. Since the liger cub is born so much larger than a normal tiger cub, the mother often requires a C-Section. This can be fatal, and it is reckless and selfish to put a tigress through this just for a liger cub.

Ligers and tigons share a lot of problems as well. Both have health problems due to genetic abnormalities and neurological defects associated with hybridization. Being hybrids, they are not genetically strong, and typically live much shorter lives than either of their parents.

They are prone to cancers, disease, and arthritis, and are known to have unstable temperaments. Depression and confusion have been noted in ligers and tigons. This is due to conflicting behavioral instincts (for example, tigers are solitary, and lions are social).

Both animals have unique nutritional needs, which are rarely met.

Did you know that the AZA does not approve of breeding ligers and tigons? They don´t, because they feel it is unethical, and because it has always been standard procedure to not keep two separate species together. Whenever you go to a zoo with a liger, you are supporting an unaccredited zoo, which is rarely a good thing. Also, animal experts worldwide have stated themselves that this hybridizing is simply not okay. Humans shouldnt play with nature.

These zoos typically have two responses when people ask why they have ligers:

1. Ligers were not something we planned on having or wanted, their births were accidental.
Why this answer doesn´t work: How can a hybrid be accidental? No good zoo would ever mix species in the same enclosure. If they really wanted to mix species in the same enclosure, they could have easily ensured no accidental births by having the animals fixed. This answer is just not justifiable.

2. We are breeding ligers to save them in the wild (conservational purposes)
Why this answer doesn´t work: Ligers have never existed in the wild. People have made claims, but none have ever been proven. The only area in the world where lions and tigers would meet is the Gir Forest. However, this area is actually terrible tiger terrain, and only really suited for lions. It is not likely these two animals would ever meet up, and normal behavior would keep them from mating with each other. Besides, the majority of these animals are sterile and they will never be considered a true species.

This is something we must stop soon. Please boycott places that continue to breed ligers and tigons, and spread the word as best as you can.

-AnimalMedia
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For more information, visit:
http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild...
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A special thanks to Big Cat Rescue and Carole Baskin (their founder) for allowing us to use their images. It was a great help and we appreciate it immensely.

Introduction music: Kevin MacLeod (Rocket)
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vtonkovic (22 hours ago) Show Hide

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fuck ZOOs and everything..people shouldnt involve in nature..let them live how they want

adityavcet (2 days ago) Show Hide

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It seems you have good knowledge but whats the bottom line? Is it OK to breed ligers? All you have done is proving the statements incorrect but your statements also dont have any proof e.g. ligers exist in wild years ago etc. I am no expert but liger is not a nature's creation. OK breeding might occur but that shud not justify we as mankind breed them intentinally or unintentionally, why to justify?

mattvsobi (3 days ago) Show Hide

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Do you have sex with animals? Is that what all this exhaustive justification for this unnatural process all about? Tehee.

prettytoney09 (3 days ago) Show Hide

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white folks always trying to play god.leave the innocent creatures alone,and keep hybriding with ur siblings,its what u used to.(to those concerned,not all white folks).

sancho4567 (19 hours ago) Show Hide

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@prettytoney09
If you don`t mean all white people, why make the distinction in the first place? Black people are always smoking crack, except the ones that don`t. You see how that sounds.

prettytoney09 (18 hours ago) Show Hide

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@sancho4567 mmm mm mm.i luv me some crack and fried chicken.i sumtimes sprinkle crack over my bird,but u will never see me experimenting with animals that just wanna be left alone.and its only caucasians that do that.behave urselves.

SinniS321 (3 days ago) Show Hide

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How is it possible that you know a animal is suffering from depression?

AnimalMedia (3 days ago) Show Hide

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There are many symptoms to look for, like there are in humans. Lack of interest in previously enjoyed activities, pacing, overly fatigued etc.

Egg324 (4 days ago) Show Hide

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Oook 1st off ive heard of loads of ligers living longer than both a tiger and lion, if they are taken good care of they have longer lives, its been proved. But nice vid

AnimalMedia (4 days ago) Show Hide

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It is true that in some circumstances, ligers can outlive their parents, but this is very uncommon.

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