Kiara is a curious cat: her father is an African lion and her mother is a liger […]
so similar that they may be from the same source, e.g. an AP story
2013 June 20, express (a publication of the Washington Post):
[…] at her enclosure at the Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia. The cub is a liliger — a big-cat breed in which the father is a lion and the mother is a liger. The first liliger was born in the zoo last year […]
2013 June 21, Ashburton Guardian (New Zealand):
[…] home to a unique animal — the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger. The first liliger was born in the zoo last year […]
2013 December 6, Metro Herald, page 10, caption on a picture:
Female liliger cub Eva plays in snow in a zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia.
2013 December 21-22 [1435 AH, Safar 18-19], [Saturday & Sunday] Peoples Daily, volume 3, number 70, page 27:
America's first "liligers" are born after big cat cross-breeding at Oklahoma zoo
