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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 27, 2010 14:53:20 GMT -5
Ligers are such massive beasts.
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Post by malicious_bloke on Dec 27, 2010 15:04:47 GMT -5
Ligers are such massive beasts. Hell yeah. Apparently they end up significantly bigger than lions or tigers when they reach adulthood. Like an incredibly monged housecat you can ride into battle.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 27, 2010 15:05:44 GMT -5
Hence why I said they're massive
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Post by Sigmaleph on Dec 27, 2010 15:09:12 GMT -5
Or ask a botanist why there are so many plant 'species' that are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring that are intermediaries of their parents... intermediaries that are known to exist naturally in the wild where the ranges of the parents overlap. Because they're the same genus. The classification goes: Kingdom; Order; Family; Genus; Species. For example, roses. They're the same Genus: Rosa. This means that a R. damascena can hybridize with other species within Rosa to produce a new species. The farther you go up the classification, the less chance you have of successfully interbreeding. This is why dogs and wolves can produce viable offspring, but dogs and cats can't. You forgot domain, phylum, and class.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Dec 27, 2010 16:59:38 GMT -5
Or ask a botanist why there are so many plant 'species' that are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring that are intermediaries of their parents... intermediaries that are known to exist naturally in the wild where the ranges of the parents overlap. Because they're the same genus. The classification goes: Kingdom; Order; Family; Genus; Species. For example, roses. They're the same Genus: Rosa. This means that a R. damascena can hybridize with other species within Rosa to produce a new species. The farther you go up the classification, the less chance you have of successfully interbreeding. This is why dogs and wolves can produce viable offspring, but dogs and cats can't. Actually, dogs and wolves are now considered to be the same species. "Canis familiaris" has been done away with and had "lupus" put in the middle, with "familiaris" denoting the subspecies.
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Post by lighthorseman on Dec 28, 2010 2:31:51 GMT -5
Ligers are such massive beasts. Hell yeah. Apparently they end up significantly bigger than lions or tigers when they reach adulthood. Like an incredibly monged housecat you can ride into battle. Think about that for two seconds... you get your battle cat all armoured up, go out, face the enemy, acting all bad arse and mean, and when you order your war cat of doom to charge the enemy, he gives you a disdainful look, yawns, and starts washing his paws. ![](http://www.jeffdeboer.com/Portals/0/Seamless.Album/433/_photos/08tourneycat.jpg)
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Dec 28, 2010 3:43:52 GMT -5
Male lions are lazy as all hell. If ligers take after their sires, you'd be lucky to even get them out on the battlefield without having them stop for a nap halfway there.
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Post by Ian1732 on Dec 28, 2010 13:40:34 GMT -5
AHAHAHAHAHA just HOW HIGH do you even have to BE just to DO something like that........
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Post by death is the road to awe on Dec 28, 2010 15:36:31 GMT -5
Man, I wasn't a member of the human species until I was almost 22...
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Dec 28, 2010 16:03:52 GMT -5
I guess I'm still not. ):
...wait...this means I can get away with immoral actions! Whoo! *runs off*
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Post by lighthorseman on Dec 28, 2010 16:33:48 GMT -5
Ligers are such massive beasts. Every time I check into this thread and see Shane's post at the top of the page, I always read it as "Ligers have such massive breasts" Psychoanalyse at your leisure.
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Post by canadian mojo on Dec 28, 2010 18:10:16 GMT -5
Or ask a botanist why there are so many plant 'species' that are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring that are intermediaries of their parents... intermediaries that are known to exist naturally in the wild where the ranges of the parents overlap. Because they're the same genus. The classification goes: Kingdom; Order; Family; Genus; Species. For example, roses. They're the same Genus: Rosa. This means that a R. damascena can hybridize with other species within Rosa to produce a new species. The farther you go up the classification, the less chance you have of successfully interbreeding. This is why dogs and wolves can produce viable offspring, but dogs and cats can't. The thing is that one of the standard definitions for species is the ability to produce fertile offspring. It is not a defining characteristic of what constitutes a genus. In many plants we are talking about morphological differences that are so subtle that it is akin to calling blonds, brunettes, and redheads different species. If these plants were physically prevented from breeding by geography or flowering times then perhaps a case could be made, but really it boils down to botanists tend to be spliters rather than lumpers.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Dec 28, 2010 18:14:02 GMT -5
Ligers are such massive beasts. Every time I check into this thread and see Shane's post at the top of the page, I always read it as "Ligers have such massive breasts" Psychoanalyse at your leisure. Reading it as-is isn't much better.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 28, 2010 19:22:39 GMT -5
Aren't ligers always male anyhow?
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Post by Sigmaleph on Dec 29, 2010 17:05:02 GMT -5
Nope. Apparently the longest lived liger was a female named Shasta. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Liger_couple.jpg/800px-Liger_couple.jpg) The one on the left is female, according to wiki.
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