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He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood - as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar. Part lion, part tiger, he is not just a big cat but a huge one,standing 10ft tall on his back legs. Called a liger, in reference to his crossbreed parentage, he is the largest of all the cat species.
On a typical day he will devour 200 lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting. At just three years old, Hercules already weighs half a ton.
He is the accidental result of two enormous big cats living close together at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, in Miami, Florida, and already dwarfs both his parents. "Ligers are not something we planned on having," said institute owner Dr Bhagavan Antle. "We have lions and tigers living together in large enclosures and at first we had no idea how well one of the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl, then lo and behold we had a liger."
50mph runner... Not only that, but he likes to swim, a feat unheard of among water-fearing lions. In the wild it is virtually impossible for lions and tigers to mate. Not only are they enemies likely to kill one another, but most lions are in Africa and most tigers in Asia. But incredible though he is, Hercules is not unique. Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World War II.
Today there are believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tigons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. Tigons are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger. They have become famous cross-breed.
Look at the size of the head on this thing!
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terry Says: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:24 pm
i would not like to have to clean the litter box!
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zep Says: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:56 pm
wow what a big XXXX she's got
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tion-king Says: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:43 am
umm no offence but technicly it would be called tion not a liger because the male was a tiger making it being the domonant one which gives it the first art of the name.
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Cory Says: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:18 pm
if you read carefully the male is a lion making it a liger. if the father is a tiger, it's a tigon not a tion
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amy Says: Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:54 am
awwwwwwww it's so ugly isn't it
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Bob Says: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:20 pm
it would be great to see pictures of some of these animals without humans in them.
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