'Caption for the Motivational Aslan' Strikes Again

[Spinward Scout]

An Aslan and a Human companion.

What caption would you put on this pic?

(bonus points if you know what kind of real-world animal that is)

 

[rancke]

"Take the picture already. My jaws are beginning to hurt!"

(It's a liger, right?)


Hans

 

[Spinward Scout]

Bonus points to you, Hans!

A liger is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger (don't ask me how or why that works). The one in the pic has his own paragraph on Wikipedia.

Jungle Island, an interactive animal theme park in Miami, is home to a liger named Hercules, the largest non-obese liger, who is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest living cat on Earth, weighing over 410 kg (904 lb). Hercules was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360, Inside Edition and in a Maxim article in 2005, when he was only 3 years old and already weighed 408.25 kg (900 lb). Hercules is completely healthy and is expected to live a long life. The cat's breeding is said to have been a complete accident.

 

[rancke]

I once surfed the Internet for the names of great cats in order to come up with names for Tigress class dreadnaughts and found thirty-odd, Ligeress among them. A couple of dozen more if you think the IN would use compound names like Snow Leopardess and Southwest African Lioness . I rejected all the ones that ended in 'cat' because I really don't think 'catess' or 'cattess' works and the female form of 'cat' appears to be 'tabby' (Wild Tabby, Dire Tabby, Sabertabby -- you see what I mean?)

The IN probably does use those compound names, seeing as they had to come up with 160 to 200 names in all. There are probably great catlike animals on hundreds of worlds, but most of them are probably called direcats or <something> lion, tiger, or cat. The only alien great felinoid I've come up with a name for so far is zebralion (a white-and-black stribed lionoid native to Zivije), but there's a long way to a full list.

Just for fun, here's my list of Tigress class names:

Tigress Class ship names
========================


Caracaless
Caravaless
Catamountess
Cheetaess
Cougaress
Doglaess
Graymalkin
Jaglioness
Jaguaress
Jaguarundiess
Jagupardess
Leopardess
Leoponess
Leguaress
Ligeress
Lioness
Liguaress
Lipardess
Loupcervieress
Lynxess
Margayess
Maroziess
Ocelotess
Ouncess
Pantheress
Pardess
Pumaess
Pumapardess
Servaless
Smilodontess
Sphinxess
Tigardess
Tigoness
Tigress
Tiguaress


Compound word Tigresses
-----------------------

Asiatic Lioness
Bali Tigress
Barbary Lioness
Bengal Tigress
Black Tigress
Blue Tigress
Caspian Tigress
Cape Lioness
Cave Lioness
East African Lioness
Indochinese Tigress
Javan Tigress
Katanga Lioness
Malayan Tigress
Maltese Tigress
Massai Lioness
Mountain lioness
Northeast Congo Lioness
Sabertoothed Tigress
Sibirian Tigress
South China Tigress
Southwest African Lioness
Snow Leopardess
Sumatran Tigress
Transvaal Lioness
Trinil Tigress
Tsavo Lioness
West African Lioness
White Tigress
​

I won't claim that all of them are equally euphonious. But if you have to come up with 160 names or more...

I can't make up my mind about adding Androsphinxess and Gynosphinxess to the list. It's the sort of mistake I can see someone who is desperately searching the library data for useable names making.


Hans

 

[McPerth]

The only alien great felinoid I've come up with a name for so far is zebralion (a white-and-black stribed lionoid native to Zivije), but there's a long way to a full list.

Aside from Aslan, of course, but I guess there would be diplomatic consequences if that name was put on a Tigress class BB ...

 

[lastbrowncoat3]

liger

well this is my area this works because of the DNA. as species evolve (from the same ancestor) over time DNA become more different (mutations). so then we have tigers and lions, there DNA may be different but it is close enough that they can mate. it wouldn't work if was, say the human and the lion the DNA isn't close enough. well that's it, in a condensed version.