Napoleon Dynamite told us it's pretty much his favorite animal. We laughed. We laughed at this ridiculous animal he made up.
He did make it up, didn't he?
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Turns out the liger was not a figment of his movie imagination.
The liger is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger. It is therefore a member of genus panthera. It looks like a giant lion, with diffused tiger stripes. Like tigers (and unlike lions), ligers like swimming. -Wikipedia
(A tigon is the cross between a male tiger and a female lion.)
Who knew?
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