They tend to inherit the tawny brown fur from their lion fathers and the dark stripes from their tigress mothers. As a result of this union between the tiger, the largest and heaviest feline ...

The lion was bred in Mr. Atkins's menagerie from a Barbary lion and a Senegal lioness. The tigress was born in the Marquis of Hastings's collection in Calcutta, and was purchased when about ...