Explain this, creationists...a Liger!

[LostAngeles]

OK, because I felt the need to check it out, I googled.

Result #2, cached from google, The Anti-Liger Alliance

 

[geni]

OTOH, I only see one giraffe, one elk, one orangutan, one panda....

there are two giraffes one bottem left and the other drinking from the pool.

 

[headscratcher4]

If the painting is after the flood, when do they stop sitting together and smiling and start eating each other?

 

[geni]

If the painting is after the flood, when do they stop sitting together and smiling and start eating each other?

How long would it take for the herbivores to build up a population big enough for the carnivores to feed off it without wipeing it out.

 

[EdipisReks]

[Napoleon Dynamite]It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic. [/Napoleon Dynamite]

 

[headscratcher4]

How long would it take for the herbivores to build up a population big enough for the carnivores to feed off it without wipeing it out.

A hungry lion could get mighty hungry waiting for the herbivores to build a sufficient population...maybe God fixed them so they wouldn't be hungry in the interim...'cept that is extra-biblical and doesn't explain why god allowd them to resume their meat-eating ways....

 

[Beleth]

I assume it is to with the lack of rainbows before the flood

Dingdingdingdingdingding!

Originally posted by CFLarsen
Of course, the rainbow is impossible. You would only see a rainbow like that, if the sun was directly behind you. Judging from the (lack of) shadows, the sun isn't.

Claus.
Dude.
It's a painting.

 

[hgc]

Liger questions

If raised in the wild by its mother in her natural habitat, would it have a chance of survival? Afterall, lions and tigers evolved in isolation from each (how far back in time is the branching node?) other and through natural selection I presume are finely tuned to their respective environments (although the tiger does inhabit a variety of terrains). Would the lion characteristics put the liger at a severe disadvantage in Tigerland?

Would the liger be inclined to solitary or pride life in the wild?

Is the liger fertile?

If the liger is fertile, then are lions and tigers subspecies of the same species?

Has anyone ever crossed a lion with a leopard? A liopard?

 

[H3LL]

Re: Liger questions

Has anyone ever crossed a lion with a leopard? A liopard?

Or a leopion. I tought they take the male animal for the beginning of the word.

Is that correct?

Edited to add:

I did a search for Tigron and got this cutie:

Are these types of crosses always sterile?

If not, what do you get is you cross a Liger with a Tigron?

 

[Suezoled]

Well there are cases of some fertility going on:
http://www.messybeast.com/big-cat2.html

Ligers and tigons are closely enough related that the offspring are partially fertile i.e. the female is often fertile but the male is rarely fertile.

and

Male hybrids are almost always sterile - although they display mating behaviour, they cannot fertilise a female (either a hybrid female or a pure-bred female). Female hybrids are often fertile, but because male hybrids are sterile, the female hybrids must mate with pure-bred big cats and these matings are not guaranteed to produce offspring.

If you poke around you can find more info about hybrids
http://members.aol.com/jshartwell/hybrid-mammals.html

 

[richardm]

The fundies like ligers. They say it proves that all big cats are just different varieties of the same species, meaning that Noah only had to take two big cats aboard the ark, and similarly with other groups, thus explaining how you can fit all those animals into the Ark.

That's right. They'd say something smug (and hopelessly wrong) like "If a tiger and lion mated and produced a rabbit - that would prove evolution"

Tossers.

Quite.

 

[CFLarsen]

Claus.
Dude.
It's a painting.

No, no...the painter was inspired by God...really!

[Joke Derail]

How does a male chihuahua mate with a female St. Bernard?

Standing on a chair...

[/Joke Derail]

 

[richardm]

If the painting is after the flood, when do they stop sitting together and smiling and start eating each other?

I dunno, but those kangaroos have got a hell of a long walk.

 

[BPSCG]

Re: Liger questions

Has anyone ever crossed a lion with a leopard? A liopard?

Leopons:

Ligers can get really big:

Link

 

[Yaotl]

No, no...the painter was inspired by God...really!

[Joke Derail]

How does a male chihuahua mate with a female St. Bernard?

Standing on a chair...

[/Joke Derail]

I once saw a picture of a chihuahua and a rottweiler going at it. The rottie was female... (no chair involved)

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

Doesn't the existence of an actual painting of the event rather prove the case against the sceptics? I mean, how much more proof do you guys need?

p.s. Why is the cheetah wearing a snake as a hat?

 

[Deetee]

The "anteaters" in the middle are tapirs.

The cheetah got p***ed off at the Lion wearing a crown, so tried to get one of his own.

Noah's hair is where all the fleas live - why else would the monkey be grooming it?

Moe Faux, you are older than I thought - do you have any juicy insights as to what happened in perideluvian times, or how you all fitted on the ark?

 

[Art Vandelay]

That's right. They'd say something smug (and hopelessly wrong) like "If a tiger and lion mated and produced a rabbit - that would prove evolution"

Actually, they did manage to produce that result. But then the parents got a little hungry, and that was the end of that.

 

[Art Vandelay]

BTW, if Superman did it with a sheep, would the kid have steel wool?

 

[hammegk]

In response to the OP title, and echoing Dr. A, what Ligers really do is provide actual evidence that evolutionists need to be more careful in identifying what constitutes a species.