Since lions and tigers do not live in the same regions, their children, which are called "ligers," are rare beasts. Nevertheless, a liger has just been brought to the London Zoo. This unnatural hybrid is the gift of an Indian prince, and was bred by him from a male lion and a female tiger. It is a three-year-old male.
Bigger than a lion, the young liger reveals the characteristic proportions of a tiger. He wears his father's khaki coat, adorned by faint tiger-stripes. He flatters his father by wearing a beard and favors his...
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