Post by AradiaMMFan on Jul 30, 2006 12:45:59 GMT -5
I love big cats, they are my favorite animals, so this is really interesting to me. I want one as a pet, lol.
The LIGER
The 10ft Liger who's still growing...
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 20lb 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.
Look at the size of the head on this thing..
)
The LIGER
The 10ft Liger who's still growing...
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 20lb 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.
Look at the size of the head on this thing..
) 
