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That depends entirely on what “the same way” means. Lions’ and tigers’ last common ancestor was well over a million years ago. Pathera’s last common ancestor wa
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That depends entirely on what “the same way” means. Lions’ and tigers’ last common ancestor was well over a million years ago. Pathera’s last common ancestor was 6.6mya. European derived dogs probably had a common ancestor within the last thousand years, definitely the last five thousand. Dogs are fully interfertile, Panthera are mostly interfertile, more than horses, zebras and donkeys are, for example. It might be possible to get zebra ancestry into donkeys’ or lions’ gene pools but there’s no might about lions and tigers. It could be done, and similarly divergent Felidae have mostly domestic cat breeds with substantial non housecat ancestry, like Bengals. Tigers’ and lions’ behaviour and morphology are very different but the same could be said for greyhounds and bloodhounds, or Great Danes and Chihuahuas. You can’t really answer the question without specifying how you’re comparing them.