A rare lion-tiger hybrid, more commonly known as a liger, gave birth to three cubs at a wildlife park  in Novosibirsk, Russia.

The liliger cubs -- one quarter tiger, three-quarters lion -- are all females and were born in May. Their mother, Zita, was born at the zoo in 2004, and their father, Sam, is an African lion.

The three cubs have one older sibling, Kiara, born in September.

Ligers are the largest known cat in the world and share both physical and temperamental characteristics with lions and tigers. They do not exist in the wild, and only female ligers can reproduce.(Source)

The baby liligers had been quarantined for the first few weeks of their lives in order to make sure they were growing at a healthy rate and where overall healthy little balls of fur.

Now that they have been given the okay, the little liligers are now clumsily discovering their new surroundings in their new enclosure.

Kiara is a curious cat: Her father is an African lion and her mother is a liger -- a cross between a lion and a tiger.

Thought to be the world's first known "liliger," Kiara was born last month in the Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia, ABC News reports.

To make things even more complicated, the super-hybridized feline is reportedly being raised by an ordinary house cat named Dasha after her liger mother wasn't able to provide the newborn cub with enough milk, the Sun reports.

The practice of breeding hybrid cats, such as Bengal Cats and Stone Cougars, has been criticized in the past as being "irresponsible" and potentially dangerous, especially when the animals are kept as pets.

"In a nutshell, it is an irresponsible thing to do and there is no redeeming reason to cross breed these cats nor to support those who do by buying one. It almost never works out for the individual cat and in the rare case that it does, the number of animals that had to suffer in order for this one rare cat to exist is staggering," Carole Baskin, founder of Big Cat Rescue, explains on the animal sanctuary's website.

However, it seems Kiara won't be going home with an unsuspecting child but will instead be living at the zoo with her big cat family and her new house cat mom. SOURCE