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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Liger |
 | | Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World |
 | | The word liger, documented as entering the English language in 1938, describes a real feline, the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. |
 | | Both ligers and tigons exist in captivity, and the pictures and description reproduced above do correspond to one such example of the former, a liger named Hercules who lives at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.) in Myrtle Beach, a wildlife education organization run by director Dr. |
| www.snopes.com /photos/animals/liger.asp (425 words) |
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