--- description: 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... title: Science: Liger image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Science: Liger by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 7, 1924 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 7, 1924 4:00 AM CUT 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 mother by his ears. His mane, however, is “like a donkey’s.” Science: Liger ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6651940/science-liger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6651940/science-liger/"},"headline":"Science: Liger","datePublished":"1924-07-07T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T18:11:52.252Z","description":"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...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6651940/science-liger/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6651940/science-liger/","name":"Science: Liger"}}]}] ```