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Liger vs Tigon are the two rarest big cats. Both ligers and tigers are classified as hybrids within the big cat family. They are classified as hybrids because they are the offspring of two different big cats i.e., lions and tigers. The main and defining difference between the liger and a tigon is that a liger has a male lion as its father and tigress as its mother while a tigon has a male tiger as its father and a lioness as its mother.