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Ten foot tall "LIGER" - part lion; part tiger; weighs half a ton and is still growing!
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| MAY 27, 2005
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Posted on 05/27/2005 4:44:50 PM PDT by CHARLITE
How's this for size?
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 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!
Now that's SOME cat!
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: animals; breed; liger; liontiger; mixed
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To: tscislaw
Napoleon Dynamite is a great movie. Gosh!
To: Redcloak
Holy Cow! He is 3 years old and still growing! How big do they think this kitty will get? Will it cause a shortened life span I wonder? Does being a liger make him gentler or able to be domesticated or something? I mean since he seems so happy to be with people and all. Doesn't he make you just want to hug him?
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posted on
05/28/2005 10:16:16 AM PDT
by
Goodgirlinred
( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
To: G Larry
Because they are hungry. You don't want to have anything that big get hungry, do you?
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posted on
05/28/2005 10:33:10 AM PDT
by
Goodgirlinred
( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
To: Allegra; Xenalyte
Looks like Joe ping.
To: MilspecRob
did any Freepers think of Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars after seeing the Liger?? I'd hate to see that bad boy "scream and leap" in my direction!
This monkey-boy would be up a tree pretty quick!
To: djreece
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posted on
05/28/2005 11:15:13 AM PDT
by
djreece
("... Until He leads justice to victory." Matt. 12:20c)
To: bannie
What would a mouse father and a rat mother produce? A mat or a mouat?
Or a rat father and a mouse mother? A rouse?
Let's see . . a skunk daddy and a cat mother? A skat?
A cat daddy and a skunk mother? A caunk?
This is all too horrible to contemplate. The only way I will post this is by accident! . . . oops!
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posted on
05/28/2005 12:07:14 PM PDT
by
Twinkie
(Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. Yes, that's all of us.)
To: CHARLITE; dighton; general_re; Thinkin' Gal; Lijahsbubbe
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Don't try cross-breeding at home.
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posted on
05/28/2005 12:21:38 PM PDT
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: tscislaw
that is one of my favorite all time stupid movies. sweet.
To: humblegunner
Looks like Joe ping. And Finbar kinda.
How's that little Edgar fellow and how are his big sisters?
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posted on
05/28/2005 8:34:23 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(It's Hotter'n A Whorehouse on Nickel Night)
To: CHARLITE
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
We have a winner for "euphemism of the day". :)
-Eric
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posted on
05/28/2005 10:47:17 PM PDT
by
E Rocc
(If God is watching us, we can at least try to be entertaining)
To: Allegra
How's that little Edgar fellow and how are his big sisters? Edgar is fine, not a care in the world.
Spot & Princess Alice wish he would grow up and stop being so silly.
Mom thinks he may have some mental deficiencies, he seems quite mindless most of the time.
He can't stop running, even when he collides with things.
You drink your water over there and I'll send you some new kitty pictures.
To: humblegunner
Mom thinks he may have some mental deficiencies, he seems quite mindless most of the time. He can't stop running, even when he collides with things. Aw, he doesn't have any mental deficiencies. He's just orange. That's what orange kitties do. He sounds like he's VERY orange.
I'm freakin' waterlogged. It's HOT outside. So I await pictures of the kits.
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posted on
05/29/2005 7:41:49 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(It's Hotter'n A Whorehouse on Nickel Night)
To: Allegra
He's just orange. That's what orange kitties do. Thats pretty much how I see it.. this is his time in life
to be "ate up" and we want him to excel .. and he is!
To: Allegra
He's just orange. That's what orange kitties do. He's ate-up as hell. A born Wilson if ever I saw one!
To: humblegunner
He's ate-up as hell. A born Wilson if ever I saw one! That face! Those little paws!
I'm in love. What a furry little charmer. I can hardly wait to meet that little guy.
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posted on
05/30/2005 3:58:17 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(It's Hotter'n A Whorehouse on Nickel Night)
To: eastforker
Hi Easty. I've been really busy lately. I hardly get to post anymore.
The psycho mutt is terrific. :-)
Give Mrs. my best, and I hope there will be a shoot soon so we can visit. I am pretty sure we are due for one.
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posted on
05/30/2005 6:56:36 AM PDT
by
RikaStrom
(The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
To: humblegunner; eastforker
I'd hate to see that bad boy "scream and leap" in my direction!
This monkey-boy would be up a tree pretty quick!
LOL
That's funny. But I'd be up that tree right with you!
Hey, did you see EastForker's question up the thread about having a shoot? He wants to go after Al-Clayda
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posted on
05/30/2005 7:02:17 AM PDT
by
RikaStrom
(The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
To: aculeus
Don't try cross-breeding at home.
Thus proving the old shibboleth...
...wait for it...
"You ARE what you eat!"
Thankfully, it looks like grooming is not genetic...ICK!
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posted on
05/30/2005 7:41:05 AM PDT
by
Itzlzha
("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
To: RikaStrom; eastforker
Hey, did you see EastForker's question up the thread about having a shoot? He wants to go after Al-Clayda We should plan to do that!
Once the temperature is in the low 80's...
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