‘Maude’ the Tigon goes on display at Manchester Museum
During the 1940’s, Maude was the most famous animal at Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo. Born to a male Manchurian Tiger and an African Lioness (hence the name Tigon), Maude was one of two Tigon offspring born in Dresden Zoo in 1932. Maude, the female cub, also had a male sibling, Kilou. In 1936, Gerald Iles,…