National Geographic - USA (2019-12)

(Antfer) #1
Lori Ensign-Scroggins
feeds chicken to
Langley, her nearly
300-pound ti-liger
(the offspring of
a male tiger and a
female cross between
lion and tiger), in
her kitchen in Broken
Arrow, Oklahoma,
as Amanda Bad inger
looks on. Langley
was born nearly blind
and with a limp,
which can result from
hybridization. He
was adopted after he
grew too big to pet.

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