These adorable cubs may look cute and unassuming but they are in fact the rarest of their species – and could grow to be the biggest cats in the world. The four handsome male ‘liger’ cubs are the first ever to be born from a white male lion and white female tiger, making them the world’s most unique big cats.
There are only around 300 white lions and 1,200 white tigers left in the world, so the cubs’ father, Ivory and mother, Saraswati, are extremely rare in their own right. But now, having been brought together at Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina, they have produced the first ever white lion-tiger hybrids - commonly known as ligers.
There are around 1,000 ligers in the world – most in captivity – but none of them are white.
Ligers makes me sad. They're too big to ever be in the wild and they go through a whole lot of health problems because of their size. Humans needs to stop playing God and making these creatures for amusement. It just ain't right There's a reason lions and tigers don't mate in the wild.