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Author Topic: The HOPEFUL thread: Be happy here!  (Read 1260538 times)

« Reply #930 on: February 01, 2007, 09:51:15 PM »
I just played WarioWare: Smooth Moves multiplayer with my brother and my sister's boyfriend, which is absolutely AWESOME.

« Reply #931 on: February 01, 2007, 10:02:51 PM »
I just finished a project about Zebra's and have gone zebra crazy. They've become my favorite animals.
Luigison: Question everything!
Me: Why?

« Reply #932 on: February 01, 2007, 11:07:59 PM »
I'm almost finished my report on Ligers! You guys wanna see the finished report in powerpoint (if I can get it on there) or just read it?
"I don't know why they're called boyshorts! Boys don't wear shorts that short!" - Mitchie

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« Reply #933 on: February 02, 2007, 06:49:18 AM »
What's a Liger? Does it bite?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

« Reply #934 on: February 02, 2007, 07:29:58 AM »
Yes! It's ferocious! Rawr!

But seriously, Ligers are a hybrid between a female tiger and a male lion.
"I don't know why they're called boyshorts! Boys don't wear shorts that short!" - Mitchie

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« Reply #935 on: February 02, 2007, 07:58:11 AM »
I finally got that dance audition overwith for my school's musical tryouts!  But my back hurts now... but maybe I'll make callbacks!
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« Reply #936 on: February 02, 2007, 02:39:17 PM »
Welcome, new user!
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

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« Reply #937 on: February 02, 2007, 02:53:37 PM »
I want to see that Powerpoint presentation!

« Reply #938 on: February 02, 2007, 03:25:03 PM »
The powerpoint thing didn't work out, but here's the body of the report! This is sorta short but nonetheless full of information. It's actually all the information I could find from various websites combined. NO STEALING MY REPORT!!!


A Brief History of Liger’s
   

   Ligers (tigris x panthera leo) are hybrid breeds. They are the offspring of a female tiger and a male lion. In the wild, there are no ligers due to the fact that lions live in Africa and tigers live in Asia. Ligers are entirely zoo-bred. The first ligers were born in the October of 1823 to Curvier, a French zoologist, in England. An African lion and an Asiatic tiger were kept in the same room. They mated frequently throughout the July of 1823. They produced three liger cubs. These are only the first recorded liger cubs, as it is unknown to this day if any ligers were born before 1823. Ligers are sometimes called tigons, which is incorrect. A tigon is the offspring of a female lion and a male tiger. The appearance of a tigon is, also, distinctively different from a liger. Ligers like to be in the water. The trait comes from their tiger side. Lions hate to get wet.



Appearance


   Ligers have stripes on their back, their legs, the stomachs, and their tails. The stripes are a slightly darker color but can clearly be distinguished from their tawny-colored background. Ligers may also have rosettes, which they inherit from their lion parent. The rosettes are usually black, dark brown, or sandy brown. When ligers have rosettes, their coats are tawny, sandy brown, or golden. Ligers can also have pale golden, white, or stripe-less coats. This drastic difference in color can only occur when a white female tiger mates with lion. Male ligers, in most cases, do not have a mane. If they do have a mane though, it is very short.

There have been no cases in which there has been a black liger bred, but there are theories. This has been tried before by mating a jaguar with a tiger but it resulted in a stillbirth. If a jaguar and a tiger mated, the liger would not be purebred as a result of the jaguars’ genes and it wouldn’t be a liger, as the father would not be a lion.





Age and Size


   Liger’s are the worlds biggest cats (excluding Siberian tigers, which are purebred). The biggest liger in the world is over 1,200 lbs (554 kgs) and his name is Hercules. Hercules, when standing up on his back legs, is 10 ft. tall. He has the strength of a lion and the speed of a tiger, reaching up to 50 miles per hour. When he was three years old, in 2005, he weighed 900 lbs (408 kg) and was featured in Maxim magazine.

The oldest liger in the world was 24 years old. Her name was Shasta and she was born on May 14th, 1948 at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, Utah. The oldest tiger that is living is named Nook. He lives in the Valley of Kings animal sanctuary and is 21 years old. He weighs 1, 210 lbs (550 kg). It was confirmed that Nook was still alive in January of 2007.


A Sterile Breeder


   Hybrids are usually sterile. This is not the case for the liger. Female ligers were always known to be fertile, although the males are sterile. It is because of genomic imprinting that the male ligers were thought to be sterile.

Generic imprinting is a biological occurrence that occurs in some genes when two inherited copies of the genes have opposite expression patterns. Each of the two inherited copies of the genes is either expressed or silenced, meaning that it is there but not shown, depending on the parental origin of the copy of the gene. Imprinted genes may be responsible for the liger’s unusual size. Another hypnosis is that the interaction of the lion genes in the tiger’s womb causes a difference. The tiger produces a hormone that sets the liger on a pattern of growth that does not end until the liger dies. The different hormones react and the male tiger stays in a sterile state. The male lions, despite being sterile, somehow mature sexually and mate with other female felines.







Ligers and their Offspring


   When ligers mate, they usually mate with another lion or another tiger.
When a liger mates with a tiger, their offspring is called ti-liger. When ligers mate with lions, their offspring is called li-liger. Li-liger’s look more like lions while ti-liger’s look more like tigers. The more genes of one cat that a liger’s children have, the more likely it is that they will look more closely related with that type of cat.

Ti-liger’s resemble golden tigers but with darker stripes. They also sound more like a tiger than their liger mothers and they rarely grow manes. This is all due to the amount of genes the tiger has in the ti-liger. One ti-liger was born in the Shambala preserve. His name was Nathaniel. He lived for 8-9 years and then died of a cancer. It is thought that his mixed genes might have contributed to the illness. His mother, Noelle, a liger, also died soon after her son.







   

"I don't know why they're called boyshorts! Boys don't wear shorts that short!" - Mitchie

« Reply #939 on: February 02, 2007, 06:11:24 PM »
http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=9323.msg457016#msg457016

I attempted to show this problem to one of the conductors, and as I was showing it, the horn valve had returned back up quicker than the day before. Seems to be pretty good, now...

Still need to get used to the feel of the horn, though...
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« Reply #940 on: February 02, 2007, 09:46:50 PM »
Hehe, my mom's printer has made my camera troubles go away!
"I don't know why they're called boyshorts! Boys don't wear shorts that short!" - Mitchie

« Reply #941 on: February 02, 2007, 09:56:09 PM »
I'm shallow, superficial, and if I continue to hold high expectations for potential girlfriends, I will always be alone, never to feel the embrace of a woman...

And I couldn't be anymore happier .
As a game that requires six friends, an HDTV, and skill, I can see why the majority of TMK is going to hate on it hard.

« Reply #942 on: February 02, 2007, 10:30:30 PM »
I am happy because somebody finally found one of my posts here to be funny


I have been trying for a while to get people to think that I'm funny, but I don't log on near often enough to do that on a daily basis.

But that's not going to stop me anymore. :D
Kinopio is the ultimate video game character! Who else can drive a kart, host parties, play tennis, give good advice and items, and is almost always happy??

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« Reply #943 on: February 02, 2007, 10:59:30 PM »
I am happy because somebody finally found one of my posts here to be funny


I have been trying for a while to get people to think that I'm funny, but I don't log on near often enough to do that on a daily basis.

But that's not going to stop me anymore. :D

I've been trying to get people here to think that I'm funny for 4 years now.  They don't, but that doesn't stop me either!
I always figured "Time to tip the scales" was Wario's everyday motto.

« Reply #944 on: February 02, 2007, 11:03:06 PM »
You're welcome Toad.
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Me: Why?

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