Rarest living tiger hybrid

During winter 1977, at Southam Zoo in Warwickshire, UK, a cub was born to a tigress that had mated with a black panther (i.e. a melanistic leopard), yielding what the media soon dubbed a pantig. No cub born as a result of a leopard-tiger mating had ever survived before, but this individual did, and when adult he was sold to an American zoo. Despite his father's all-black pelage, the pantig most closely resembled a normal leopard in general coat colour, but his face was distinctly tiger-like. No other surviving leopard-tiger hybrid has been recorded since this individual's birth. Equally, Altoplano Zoo in San Pablo Apetatlan, Mexico, currently houses the world's only known bona fide tiguar (tiger-jaguar hybrid). Born in June 2009, his name is Mickey, and whereas his father is a Siberian (Amur) tiger P. tigris altaica, his mother is a jaguar P. onca originating from the southern Chiapas jungle. Mickey and the Southam Zoo pantig are therefore the world's rarest big cat hybrids alive today.