Jessica Menton | Sep 14, 2012 3:02pm EDT | 1min:19sec

The world's only hybrid cub of a lion father and a liger mother, was born in the Novosibirsk zoo in Russia's Siberia. In 2004 a male African lion and a tigress produced a hybrid animal, called a liger.

Male ligers are sterile, but the one born in the Russian zoo was female, called Zita. Eight years later, Zita produced a cub from a lion from the same Siberian enclosure. The offspring was born in August and zookeepers believe it is the world's only animal of this hybrid kind.

The "liliger" was called Kiara, after the daughter of the lion Simba from "The Lion King" movie. Zookeepers put the cub into quarantine but visitors might be able to see Kiara starting in October.

Kiara is female and she can theoretically reproduce, so the Novosibirsk zoo might want to see what happens several years later after they release her in the same enclosure with lions and tigers again and things become even more complicated.