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PHOTOS: It's a Tiger? It's a Panda? No, It's a Dog!

"Usually, when a lion and a tiger are kept together, they will for sure attack each other to death," Huang told the British Telegraph newspaper. "But these two have been spending time together since they were small."

Huang said he did not purposely breed the animals but that Simba and Beauty began to mate about three years ago.

"The tigress' pregnancy caught me totally off-guard," Huang said.

Zoo staff must now hand-rear the cubs because the mother rejected them.

Taiwan's first ligers have sparked controversy throughout the island. Various animal rights groups and activists say that breeding hybrids is a total disregard for animal welfare and is, quite simply, not what Mother Nature intended.

"Crossbreeding two protected species is completely against nature," Lin Tai-jing, a researcher for Environmental and Animal Society of Taiwan, told Taiwan News. "We are urging the Council of Agriculture to ... bring Huang to real justice. A fine of