I would have to agree with Napoleon Dynamite in that the Liger is “”pretty much my favorite animal” as well.

Lira, a three-month-old liger cub has become a bit of a celebrity in the Russian city where she’s kept as a pet. The cub currently lives with her trainer, Pavel Zabelkin, in a flat in the eastern Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Pavel’s parents work with wild cats in a circus in a nearby city.

Video after the jump.

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger and resembles a lion with diffused stripes. Rare reports have been made of tigresses mating with lions in the wild. The largest cats in the world, the cubs can grow to twice the size of their parents. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.

[Reuters]

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