A Congolese Spotted Lion or more correctly lijagulep is the hybrid of a male lion and female jaguar-leopard (a jagulep or lepjag). Several lijaguleps have been bred, but only one appears to have been exhibited as a Congolese Spotted Lion. It was most likely given that name by a showman because the public were more interested in exotic captured animals than in captive-bred hybrids.
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