Wikijunior talk:Big Cats/Tigons and Ligers

This article seems to contradict much of what is written in the Tigon wikipedia article. - anon

the article on Ligers and Tigons is an informative one and should not be deleted. Hybrids exist in many species, that is a fact and one that most children should have no trouble understanding. Frankly I fail to understand the logic behind deleting a page because most adults have not heard of the content.. isn't that what information books are all about, informing us? Pabsy.

This page is informative and I can see no reason to delete it from the book. Hybrids happen in many species and my children have no trouble understanding that fact. Frankly i fail to understand the logic in deleting a page on the grounds that a reader has never heard of the content or that the content could confuse a child. isn't that what information books are all about.. informing us? oh come on... why stop at deleting a page on hybrid cats?, children are confused with Algebra, logarithms, times tables... lets delete the lot..simple. pabsy 26-03-05


 * Are you sure that lions and tigers can cross-breed? Do they even co-exist anywhere? Visit Uncyclopedia - you will absolutely love it. Charlie123 8 July 2005 12:52 (UTC)

Merger
Content to make an entire book on Tigons and Ligers is quite frankly absurd. This section should be merged into the WikiJunior Book of Lions or Tigers.

Confusing
"Due to conservation efforts, deliberate hybridization is prohibited in most zoos. However, it happens regularly by accident, and some private breeders try to breed ligers for novelty purposes."

I am 12, I find this confusing: deliberate hybridization, novelty purposes, conservation efforts. "Not allowed" is probably more understandable than "prohibited". "Owners" might be easier than "private breeders."

"They are instinctively social animals. Tigers, on the other hand, are instinctively solitary. The offspring of a lion-tiger share the conflicting instincts of both their parents."

I would say this sentence like this-

"Lions naturally like to live together in groups, but tigers like to live by themselves." (The second sentence doesn't make any sense to me.)

"Ligers were originally assumed to be sterile, which is true for most hybrid species such as the mule (a cross between a horse and a donkey). However, females can be fertile."

I thought "sterile" meant clean, but my father told me that it means that they can't have babies. I guess that "fertile" means they can. --Hdavis 00:19, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Illustrations
This article is crying out for photographs. Unfortunately our options are a bit limited. All the hybrid pictures on commons reside in commons:Category:Pantherinae (commons:Category:Hybrid Cats is just a partial duplicate). Our options look to be:

The last tigon picture is ok, but the rest leave a lot to be desired, especially for a kids book. I'm still looking for more free images, but I'm not holding my breath on this one. What do you folks think? &mdash; Laura Scudder | Talk 08:37, 23 November 2005 (UTC)