Ligers

oh and meant this to be in the last post but a dog is 100% DNA the same as a wolf a dog and a wolf are essentially different breeds or you could call dogs a subspecies of wolf as sience now classifies them. There's as yet no genetic test to determine a wolf from a dog or hybrid of the two.

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Originally Posted by TamanduaGirl

doesn't that just mean the wild tigers are under populated? If there aren't a bunch of them lacking for homes then the captive population isn't over populated but a wider diversity of animals focused on would be nice. and yes some wind up in sanctuaries but it's a smal percent and usualy either an illegaly owned one or one where it became illegal after they already had it.

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Well, it's to the point where some zoos are euthenizing them.

I hadn't heard of that but i know they only want "pure breed" perfect cats in their programs. Zoos used to sell over stocked animals to private keepers but it's not considered politicly correct to do so any more so I could see it being possible but I'll need to look and see if there's any articles on that. I mean that stuff is all made public through the freedom of information act so groups can get a hold of their records from USDA so if they were euthanizing just because there was no other zoo to take them and still breeding that would be big news so I'm a bit doubtful right now. They make a big stink about every death at a zoo natural causes or not.