A lion a tiger? Its a Liger.

Ligers are the world’s biggest cats, larger than their parents, with the strength of a lion and speed of a tiger combined.

An average male liger stands almost 12ft tall on its hind legs and weighs up to half a ton, twice the weight of a wild lion or tiger.

How did the liger appear?

If the father is a lion and the mother a tiger, the offspring are known as ligers and the pairing results in gigantism.

A tigon example

Strangely, if the pairing is reversed and the mother is a lion, the offspring – known as a tigon – will be small, weighing less than 150 kg.

Ligers (picture left) and tigons (picture right) are not thought to appear in the wild, as the behavior and habitats of lions and tigers make interbreeding unlikely.

In the Thirties in South Africa, the two species were put in the same cage and, to the keepers surprise, they didn’t fight. In fact, they made love, and the liger was born.

A liger example

So popular did they become that zoos in Europe clamored for specimens and so stray dogs on that Continent also came to

be frightened away by massive mounds of manure.

Ligers look like both their parents only bigger. Their teeth are whoppers: two inches long.

They may resemble either parent, and range from white to gold to brown, with or without spots and stripes. A male liger may have a mane, but it is usually much smaller than his father’s.

As hybrids, ligers have low fertility rates, but some females have produced an offspring by mating with full lions or tigers. Liger males are totally unfertile though.

On a typical day, a liger will devour 9kg of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 45kg at a single sitting. When he is fully grown he is expected to reach 3.5m, and more than 300kg.

The U.S. Navy has 75 trained dolphins to detect enemy swimmers and underwater mines.

A military dolphin is a dolphin trained for military uses. The United States and Soviet militaries have trained and employed oceanic dolphins for several reasons. Such military dolphins have been trained to rescue lost naval swimmers or to locate underwater mines.

The U.S. Navy trains dolphins and sea lions under the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, which is based in San Diego, California. They get some of their dolphins from the Gulf of Mexico. Military dolphins were used by the U.S. Navy during the First and Second Gulf Wars. About 75 dolphins are in the program.

The United States Navy implemented a program in 1960 to work with dolphins and sea lions in order to help with defense, mine detection, and design of new submarines and new underwater weapons. The Navy did many tests with several marine mammals to determine which would be best for the jobs they needed done. "More than 19 species were tested, including some sharks and birds." Eventually, the bottlenose dolphin and California sea lion were shown to be the best at what the Navy needed them for. The bottlenose dolphins' asset was their highly evolved biosonar, helping to find underwater mines, and the sea lions' asset was their impeccable underwater vision, which can help to detect enemy swimmers. In fiscal year 2007, the United States Navy spent $14 million on research on marine mammals as weapons and marine mammal training programs in object recovery and mine detection and have 75 trained dolphins.[8] Dolphins have contributed to saving more lives in open water than specially trained life savers[citation needed].

The dolphins and sea lions are trained by five teams of the Navy's Marine Mammal fleet members. One team specializes in swimmer detection, three teams in mine location, and another team in object recoveries. The quick-response goal of this fleet is to mobilize a team and be on site within 72 hours. Dolphins are trained much as police dogs and hunting dogs are. They are given rewards such as fish on correct completion of a task. Dolphins are trained to detect underwater mines and enemy swimmers and then report back to their handlers.[4]

Retired US Admiral Tim Keating claimed that military dolphins could be used to detect mines in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to close the waterway in January 2012.[10]

Thanks letter from a class student 5th to isro

Homeless beggar to Supermodel!!

future is unpredictable ,sometimes it give fruits that have never been dreamed .

same happens to Chinese  homeless man who become fashion icon of china .a armature photographer took random pic this home less man that it become on-line sensation  of china .

His distinctive look caught the eye of the photographer as Mr Cheng walked the streets of Ningbo, east China.he was homeless and jobless so he was to ashamed to contact his family .the relatives thought he was dead until they saw the images on the internet .Since his virtual fame, Mr Cheng, who has been left shy and withdrawn after his experiences,  has received offers to appear in advertisements and he has also worked as a catwalk model.His caring fans have also donated 100,000 yuan (£10,000) to help him get his life on track.

Meet real angel of death

Ayyub Faleh al-Rubaie, known by his nom de guerre Abu Azrael (Arabic: ابو عزرائيل‎, literally “Father of Azrael”), also known as the “Angel of Death”, is a commander[1] of the Kataib al-Imam Ali, an Iraqi Shi’a militia group of the Popular Mobilization Forces that is fighting ISIL/ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in Iraq.[2].killed around 1500 ISIS fighters

 He has become a public icon of resisting ISIL in Iraq among Shia Iraqis with a large following on social media.[3] His motto and catchphrase is “illa tahin” (إلى طحين), meaning “Grind you to dust”, that is, he would pulverize ISIL militants until nothing remains of them but powder.

He was a former militia member in Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army[4] which fought against the United States during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.[5] .

Battles fought 

Iraq War (2014–present)

• Salahuddin campaign
  • Battle of Tikrit
  • Battle of Baiji