Show mr lion and mrs tiger expect a young Ti ITI glion ghon SALT LAKE CITY throwing out all textbooks the salt lake city zoo has accomplished the supposed ly imposible impossible impo sible mating a full grown lion n and tiger traditionally deadly enemies mae and huey are boxing play fully in their cage at the hogle zoological gardens here these days and the zookeeper joe naylor said mae the three year old tigress was expecting her first offspring lions and tigers have been mated before e but as far as zoologists know not when brought together after reaching maturity the ger man animal expert carl hagen beck experimented successfully in the field but his method was to rear the lion and tiger together from some of the resulting progeny sent to zoos in england and this country but no case is on rec ord of a successful mating in the united states the hybrid offspring are variously called tig lions ligers and similarly coined terms naylor took nearly 10 months to get his pair together |