A male tiger and female lion, both over two years old, have
fallen in love at a safari park in southernmost China's Hainan Province.
This photo shows a male
tiger and a female lion living together at the Hainan Tropical
Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden, December 29, 2007.
The website Photobase reported that the Hainan Tropical Wildlife
Park and Botanical Garden purposely put the tiger and lion in to
live together since they were just two months old, in order to
produce a hybrid cub.
The experiment is going well, but whether they will finally mate
and give birth to a baby is not yet known, the report said.
The park once matched a male lion with a female tiger, resulting
in the birth of nine lion-tiger hybrid cubs.
(CRI January 3, 2008)
