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{{Hybridbox
| name = Leoger
| genus = Panthera
| father = pardus
| father_link = Leopard
| mother = tigris
| mother_link = Tiger
}}

The '''leoger''' is a [[Panthera hybrid|''Panthera'' hybrid]] between a leopard and a tigress. It is closely related to a [[Panthera hybrid|tigard]].<ref name=messybeast>{{cite web |url=http://messybeast.com/genetics/hyb-leopxtiger.htm |title=HYBRIDS BETWEEN LEOPARDS AND TIGERS |work=Messybeast |accessdate=January 15, 2015}}</ref>

Leogers have always been recorded to be stillborn. This is probably due to either to [[growth dysplasia]] or some incompatibility of the leoger fetus with the womb of the tigress.<ref name=messybeast/>

Leoger have supposedly appeared many times. <ref name=messybeast/> <ref name=macroev>{{cite web |url=http://www.macroevolution.net/leopard-tiger-hybrids.html#.VLhfENE5Cpo |title=Leopard-tiger hybrids |work=Macroevolution |accessdate=January 15, 2015}}</ref> Frederick Codrington Hicks recorded that the weight of these creatures varied from 50 pounds to the weight of a tigress. <ref name=macroev/> In addition, in September 1965, a leoger skin was supposedly put on sale. There are some more documentations of the leoger, but most of them are just of strange-looking skins that could also be attributed to genetic mutations. Most of these reports are probably hoaxes or misinterpretations, which makes it hard for scientists to learn about leogers, but at least a part of the claims are true or in part true, such as the ones made by Frederick Codrington Hicks.<ref name=messybeast/><ref name=macroev/>

==References==
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{{Mammal hybrids}}
[[Category:Panthera hybrids]]

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