The faintly striped, shaggy-maned creatures are the offspring of male lions and female tigers, which gives them the talent to roar like lions and chuff like tigers-a loving sound that is somewhere between a purr and a raspberry.
They weigh about a thousand pounds, each and eat 50 pounds of raw meat in a meal.
Tigons are the babies of a male tiger and a female lion. They are usually tawny in color with pale brown candle flame shaped stripes along their backs and down their legs. Their underbellies are often paler and even sometimes white