Police and animal welfare officials in Taiwan were first clued in that a private zoo was breeding ligers when there was a massive uptick in magical activity in their country. After all, everyone knows that ligers are bred for their skills in magic, so that’s a dead give-away that you’ve got more than the expected number of ligers. A search of Huang Kuo-nan’s private zoo revealed a pair of liger cubs being hand-reared by the zookeeper, the result of breeding a male lion and a female tiger.
Actually, says Huang in his own defense, he didn’t have anything to do with the animals breeding; they took the initiative themselves. Simba the lion and Beauty the tiger just did what comes unnaturally to their species as a result of having no other options. “Usually when a lion and a tiger are kept together, they will for sure attack each other to death, but these two have been spending time together since they were small,” explained Huang, adding that the two started mating three years ago but no cubs resulted until the pair of magical liger babies were born.
Breeding and crossing endangered or rare animals is a 1000-pound fine in Taiwan.
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