Twin Tigons Found in China.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 27, 2009 -- Tigon is the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion. Tigons have features of both tigers and lions, with their heads usually resembling the mother and the body the father. Their survival rate is close to 1 in 500,000.

However, the rare twin tigons have survived their first 28 days since being born in the wildlife park. The cubs were born in the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden on Sept.1, after the 106-day pregnancy of an African lioness.

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Twin Tigons Found in China.

The first tigons born in the island province, they are the offspring of Sha Sha the lioness and 4-year-old Manchurian tiger Guo Guo.

They each weighed more than 1.5 kilograms and stood almost 30 centimeters tall, said He Zailin, director of the park's animal management department. They weighed 500 grams and stood no more than 20 centimeters at birth.

The tigon is much rarer than the liger, a hybrid of a male lion and a tigress. "Because it's more dangerous for a lioness to give birth to babies than tigress, and the survival rate of tigons are much lower." said He.

The twins were very healthy and the zoo was considering asking the public to suggest names, he said.

In China, tigons can also be seen in zoos in Shenzhen, a city of the southern Guangdong province and Xiamen, a city of east China's Fujian province.

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