Cannie_Flippington t1_j6klvgc wrote on January 31, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Reply to comment by TylerBradleyLegend in TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe

Except with tigons and ligers! My favorite example of assumed sterility. Apparently the whole world just forgot they weren't actually sterile for 20 years.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nindia.2017.46

I can never find the article where a zoo had a tigon enclosed with an opposite sex tiger and was so surprised when they had babies.

AndyZuggle t1_j6kozxi wrote on January 31, 2023 at 12:27 AM

This site has had the information up for a long time, at least a decade:

http://messybeast.com/genetics/hyb-lion-tiger.htm

Cannie_Flippington t1_j6kpbs2 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 12:30 AM

I'm talking 1980 to about 2003. So that wouldn't contradict this site hosting the information even for two decades.