# Wikijunior:Big Cats/Tigards

The tigard is a rare feline species that comes from a male tiger and a
female leopard. When people tried to cross the tiger and the female
leopard the cubs that were born died.

There have only been two attempts for crossing this two species:

In the year 1900 Carl Hagenbeck crossed this two species but he failed
and the cubs died when they were born, the cubs had many rosettes, some
spots and a few stripes. In the year 1951 the book \'Mammalian Hybrids\'
reported that a male tiger and two female leopards from India had cubs
but the cubs were born premature and they had the size of a small mouse
or a walnut.

