1.4- 1.7m (female)
Shoulder height:1.2m (male)
1m (female); Body length: 2.5-3.3m (male)
2.3-2.7m (female); Weight: 150-250kg (male)
120- 180kg (female). Average age of male 12 years old.
Female 15- 16 years. Males live shorter lives because they often take part in fierce fights. Mainly medium and large animals, but small animals will not let go when necessary. They also like to sit still and take away the hard-earned food of hyenas and cheetahs. Lions eat without chewing. They can swallow up to 43 kilograms of food at a meal, but they are usually full after eating 8-9 kilograms. Lions generally don't eat people, and they know it's best not to touch human livestock. Lions only attack people when they are hungry or too old to hunt. For example, in Tanzania, a hungry lion broke into a resident's house and ate a child aged 10 due to the indiscriminate hunting of antelope and other animals. It is said that this man-eating lion slept in the room until dawn, and didn't care about the family of the child hiding in the next room. As for the attack on camping in the wild, it is extremely rare, but it did happen. 1974 In Kenya, a lion broke into the camp and ate people. But strangely, there was not only one camp at that time. The lion who ate people chose a tourist who often hunted in the wild to eat, perhaps because of a causal cycle. At that time, tourists from other camps had been listening to the sound of lions eating people, and what happened that night must be unforgettable. The mating process of lions may scare people. In the * * * period, the lioness only has a week or so every two years, and the male lion will always stay with the lioness. The highest record is that he has mated with the lioness more than 100 times in one day. The mating process is also full of * * *. The male lion will ride on the female lion, growl while mating, and bite her neck with her mouth open when she gets up, but she will still catch up and won't break her neck. It is said that the lioness will be very painful when mating, but she will not ovulate without pain. In order to train the next generation of lioness, it can be said that it is hard. Pregnancy is usually from 100 to 1 14. When the lioness gives birth, she will leave alone and give birth to two or four cubs at a time. The cubs are only 1-2kg when they are born, and they don't know how to walk. The lioness should hold them gently with her big mouth that can tear meat and bones. Lions learn to walk when they are about three weeks old, and they can move freely in six to seven weeks. The cubs were weaned at about six months old, and then began the most difficult years. Because adult lions are not ruthless when grabbing food, young lions often starve to death because they can't grab food. A lion changing its master is the bloodiest thing in the "lion world". The driven male lion is not only seriously injured, but even his own flesh and blood will be destroyed by the new owner. In this case, the lioness will not come out to protect her own flesh and blood. The motivation behind this barbaric behavior is that the new owner will take this opportunity to speed up the arrival of the next lioness (in fact, this behavior is not unique to lions, such as zebras).
Reference: wildnature.go2c.info/wildlife/lion
The offspring of a hybrid between a male tiger and a female lion is called a tiger lion beast, and the offspring of a hybrid between a male lion and a female tiger is called a tiger lion beast. The offspring of male and female tigers are called tiger tiger, and the offspring of male and female tigers are called tiger tiger. The offspring of the male lion and the female tiger will be called liger, and the offspring of the male lion and the female tiger will be called liger. By analogy, if the dominoes fall all the way, will there be more "lions-lions-tigers" and "tigers-tigers" that can't be avoided? ..... Perhaps, there will be a group of "monsters" in the future? Only at this stage, the manufacture of a large number of monsters is still in the experimental stage. "The tigers, lions and beasts we cultivated have set a world record. Next, I will let the tiger lion and tigon and the tiger lion beast produce the next generation. Then, the next generation will produce the next generation. " Zhao Yunhua, who said this, is a senior animal priest in shenzhen safari park. She studies the cross between a tiger and a lion and is a curious "monster" producer. 65438+February 18, when the reporter interviewed her, Zhao Yunhua proudly said that her two tigers and lions had survived for more than seven months and were "healthy". According to reports, at present, two tigers and lions have good appetites, and they can eat about 3.5 kilograms of beef, mutton and rabbit meat every day, as well as some eggs and milk. Tiger, lion and beast are about 70 cm long. Although my sister is slightly smaller than my brother, she also weighs more than 30 kilograms, and my brother weighs 35 kilograms. Today, two tigers and lions live with their African mothers in the specially built "Tiger and Lion Manor" in the zoo. Previously, a tiger, lion and beast in Changsha kept its domestic survival record for 206 days. Now, the tiger, lion and beast cultivated by Zhao Yunhua are constantly refreshing this record. It is reported that this is also the only two tigers and lions that can be found in the world at present. In addition, Zhao Yunhua also cultivated three tigon at the same time, which is also "in good condition". Tiger lion beast is more difficult to survive than tigon, which is called "Tiger lion beast". The crystallization of a lion and a tigon is called "tigon". "These little monsters are naturally mated." Zhao Yunhua introduced that his idea of cultivating hybrid monsters began 10 years ago. 1995 During the Spring Festival, a tiger "Lily" rented at a high price from France was exhibited in Shenzhen Zoo. Lily is the first tiger in the world. She died at the age of 20, and the French spent hundreds of millions of dollars to cultivate it. She introduced that tigon, or tiger, lion and beast, is rare because the tiger is the "king of the jungle" and the lion is the "king of the grassland". The two sides are in different natural environments and are not the same kind of people. Of course, there is no mating. "The data shows that the pregnancy rate of Tigong is 1%-2%, and the survival rate is one in 500,000. As for the survival rate of tigers, lions and beasts, it is even less. At present, the number of tigers and lions in the world does not exceed 10, and tigers and lions have been reported to breed abroad since 1837, but there have been no reports of survival in the past two years. " In order to challenge the French "Lily", Zhao Yunhua began to try to breed several four-month-old Siberian tiger cubs and African lion cubs in groups on 1996. In Lion Tiger Mountain in shenzhen safari park, 12 liger (including 5 Siberian tigers and 7 African lions) were released. During the day, they put lions and tigers in scattered areas for tourists to watch. At night, they take them back to the inner room, where they feed once a day and stop eating for two days a week. Lions and tigers have lived together since childhood and experienced physical maturity and sexual maturity. Among them, Su Min, a 9-year-old male tiger, clearly fell in love with the lioness for a long time, and successfully crossed the racial barrier in June+10 this year. 12 In May, the lioness Mingming gave birth to two tigers and lions. The nature of hybrid monsters has not yet been seen. What is the difference in temper and personality between tigers, lions, beasts or tigon produced by abnormal hybridization and their parents? Zhao Yunhua introduced that these two young tigers, lions and beasts combined the characteristics of their parents. The dark lines of body shape, head shape, ears, eyes, nose, mouth and back clearly show the characteristics of the lioness; The coat color, head pattern, white stripes behind ears and circular stripes on the tail clearly show the characteristics of tigers, while the patterns on cheeks, legs and sides of the body have different numbers of stripes like tigers, and a few irregular spots like lions. It is reported that chromosome mismatch will affect the size of hybrid monsters. Tigon will get "huge syndrome", which is twice as big as his parents; Tigers, lions and beasts will suffer from "short stature", which is much smaller than any of their parents. "In my experience, tigers and lions are more like lions when they grow up, and tigon is more like a tiger." Zhao Yunhua said. In other respects, Zhao Yunhua said that nothing unusual was found, because the hybrid cubs were still very small, more like lions or tigers, or combined the characteristics of both. There is no way to tell at present. The next step is to cultivate tigers. Zhao Yunhua said: "In mixed-race cats, infertility often occurs, but it is not always the case. Information shows that men are infertile; Anatomy confirms this statement, but female tigers and lions often give birth to the next generation. " She introduced that Rudilalin, a tigress in Kolkata Zoo, India, successfully paired with a male lion named Dampota, and then gave birth to seven tigresses before her death. Noel, a lioness in Shambala Nature Reserve, also has a birth record-she was raised with a male Siberian tiger in Heilongjiang, and gave birth to an extremely rare tiger, Tiger Lion, on June 65438 1983+September 65438+June 06. The tiger lion named Nathaniel is quite big, comparable to a little liger. As a three-quarters tiger, Nathaniel's stripes are darker than his mother's, and there is no sign of long mane on his appearance. Later, Nathaniel died of the spread of cancer. Only eight years old. Zhao Yunhua firmly believes that as a female hybrid, it is fertile. "The rare situation is the tiger lion-liger (the tiger lion's father/liger's mother). This situation has not been confirmed, because the body of tiger and lion is extremely rare, and the fertility of male hybrids has not been confirmed. According to the data, there seems to be a more likely combination in the process of mating between tiger and liger and giving birth to' Tiger-liger'. " "I am not afraid of ethical criticism." Facing the external "ethical questioning", Zhao Yunhua said, "I don't want to talk about that. I'm not afraid of ethical criticism. This argument is endless. No one in the scientific community has done the research I am doing now. Cloning used to be an argument, but now it is nothing! " She thinks this kind of hybrid research has high economic value. From the perspective of molecular genetics, this interspecific hybrid offspring is an excellent material for comparative genomics and gene function research. Zhao Yunhua believes that such research "helps us understand how life evolved and the role, function and status of various genes in life. It is of extraordinary significance to the development of science. " Link: Foreign Tiger and Lion Breeding Record 1837 The world's first tiger and lion record-a tiger and lion presented by Princess Jamnagar (Indian state) to Queen Victoria. 1from the end of 1920s to the beginning of 1930s, a tiger lion was bred in London Zoo. Between 1936 and 1968, tigers and lions once appeared in the Boliwei Zoo in Manchester, England. 197 1 year, a female tiger lion named Rudy Lalin was born in Kolkata Zoo. 1On March 8th, 974, a female tiger lion "Lenny" was born in Kolkata Zoo. She was born by mating an Indian tiger with an African lioness. In appearance, she looks like a lioness in size and appearance, but her head and chin are smaller. Her fur is shiny with light stripes. 1978 Christmas, a female lion "Noel" was born in Shambala Nature Reserve. She owns tigers, lions and liger. In Christmas 2000, the National Zoo of Australia collected a pair of adult tiger and lion twins. According to relevant records, tigers and lions lived to 16 years old healthily. Source: Beijing Science and Technology News; Author: Yang Meng transferred from Sino-Singapore. Com and send it to friends to print and close the window.