R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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Great pics! You didn’t climb the fence did you? A tiger is a tiger!
And they were wild in the sight of God before ever sin entered the world.
Was there a Liger?
@Brad — Ha!! I get that but I’m thinking Dr. C doesn’t!!
PS: Vote For Pedro
Okay, clue me in.
A “Liger” is the name of an animal that was drawn by the lead character in Napoleon Dynamite — it’s a cross between a lion and a tiger — and Napoleon Dynamite is in my top 5 “must not see” movies of all time. Unfortunately, Mrs Chunk loves it.
About 40 seconds in you can see the Liger scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHDi_AnqwN4
And until today, I did not believe Napoleon. There is such a thing as a Liger: http://www.ligerfacts.org/
Apologies for my lowbrow movie reference.
No worries. I missed that one. No Ligers at the Wild Animal Park/SD Zoo Safari.
When I first heard of ligers and tigons on the “Today” Programme BBC Radio 4, they said that you can mate a male liger with a female tigon and the offspring is a lion, similarly if you mate a male tigon with a female liger, you get back a tiger. This was a joke (I didn’t check the date, was it April 1), and for a long time I assumed the whole thing was an April Fool. However, I now understand that not only are there ligers and tigons, but zonkeys and donkras (Unfortunately they are NOT called debras) as well.
Based on the post title I thought this was going to be a Federal Vision post…
Ligers are the offspring of a male lion and female tiger. And they are huge. http://youtu.be/JE8Z5Es-M0E