Animals - Aquariums - Archeology - Insects - Fossils - Zoos
Mar. 02 Introducing The World's First Leopons'. Made In Japan'.: For the first time in the world - the keepers at the Hanshin Park Zoo, near Osaka -Japan have succeded in mating a Leopard and a Lioness - and two Leopard-lions have been born - known as Leopons'. Previously Lions and Tigers have been mated -- to produce Ligers'; a Lioness and a tiger, producing tigons'; and there has been a lion ad a leopardess union with the production of Lipards'. The Leopard named Koshio is 4 years 9 months old and came from Hagenbach Menagerie - Germany - while Sonoko the lioness, almost the same age was born at the Osaka Zoo. The two cubs- born on Nov. 2nd. are 4 kilos each in weight, with face like lions and bodies spotted like leopards. Before the mating the parents were injected with hormones. Photo shows The Leopard and the lioness with their cubs - in the cage at the Hanshin Park Zoo, Osaka, Japan
