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Noun: "a female liger"
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- 1994 — Tim May, "Waystation Trying to Save Tigers in Ireland", Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1994:
- Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger.
- 2005 — "Three ligers born in Russia, bred for their skills in magic", The Morning Call, 23 November 2005:
- This is the second litter of pretty much our favorite animal -- the first being ligress Zita, born in 2004.
- 2008 — Brandon Griggs, Utah Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Insiders' Guide (2008), →ISBN, page 128:
- Called Shasta because "she hasta" have this and "she hasta" have that, the bossy liger — she was a ligress, to be more precise — was one of the zoo's most beloved and famous residents before she died in 1972 at the ripe age of twenty-four.
- 2012 — "An exceptionally rare 'liligress' is born at Siberian zoo", The Siberian Times, 6 September 2012:
- Kiara's father is a lion called Samson, but her proud mother is Siberia's world famous eight year old 'ligress' - Zita, who is herself half lion and half tigress.
- 2012 — "The rarest big cat in the world needs a normal moggy as her foster mum", The Siberian Times, 11 September 2012:
- There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth.