NorthStar Chronicles Oct. 2015 Oct. 2015 | Page 17

Greetings, or as I should say, “TAHHHHH!” Liger and the Tigon The liger is the world’s biggest cat. They’re named ligers because the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger. If the situation was reversed and the mother was a lion and the father was a tiger, it would be called a tigon, and it would be a dwarf instead of a giant. A fully grown tigon is less than 350 pounds, while the liger is nearly 900 pounds. Ligers are not sterile.