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.
Now that's SOME cat!
I do believe we've found the solution to FreeRepublic's recurring troll problem!
This is a pussy that can eat you.
The email you got appears to be taken from a real website and then exaggerated for effect.
Here's the actual website of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, which appears to actually be in Myrtle Beach, SC rather than Miami.
http://www.tigers-animal-actors.com/index2.html
And their Liger page:
http://www.tigers-animal-actors.com/about/liger/liger.html
"Long ago, outside the old city of Singapore, which was considered to be the city of Lions, there was reported to be giant brown beasts. This was before the Asiatic lion was reduced to such low numbers that their are now less than 200 left in the Gir forest. This huge animal might just be an explanation for this myth, for he is neither a lion nor a tiger, but he is about the size of both of them combined. The liger is the world's largest big cat. An average male liger weighs over 900 pounds and standing almost 12 feet tall.
The reason that they are called a liger is because the father was a lion and the mother was a tiger. If the situation was reversed and the mother was a lion and the father was a tiger, he would be called a tigon, and would be a dwarf instead of a giant. A fully grown tigon is usually less that 350lbs. Ligers are not sterile, and they can reproduce. If a liger were to reproduce with a tiger, it would be called a titi, and if it were to reproduce with a lion, it would be call a lili.
Ligers are not something we planned on having. We have lions and tigers living together in large enclosures. We had no idea how well one of the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl. Low and behold, she had giant brown babies, and we knew we had ourselves some ligers.
Our ligers were raised on a baby bottle, and they still enjoy getting them as treats. They are not tame from these activities, they are trained to behave. They will still bite or even kill someone given the right set of circumstances. Our liger could easily eat a hundred pound of food in a sitting but they tends to gain a little extra weight so we feed them about 25 pound of food a night. People often ask what our big cats eat. They love to eat something called, King Lion diet, which is made basically by taking a horse, a cow, a couple of pigs and a flock of chickens and putting them into a blender on high with all they parts and pieces. This ends up looking like a raw bloody meatloaf. They also enjoy restaurant quality chicken thigh quarters and chunk beef."
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My thoughts exactly, I just found a new "ZOT" picture.(after a little photoshopping)
Imagine having to say to this 1,000 pound creature,
"Nice kitty...nice kitty..!!"
Spike: Go on cat, scratch me...go ahead, scratch me....
That thing is massive. I hope those people treat it with the respect it deserves.
Thanks, NorseWood! Funny comment. Can you "picture" a couple thousand of these roaming around between a double fence on both northern and southern borders?Char :)
placemarker
A liger at the Boston zoo has mated with Ted Kennedy. It has produced a drunken 4,000 pound mutant known as a "LIAR". Likes to swim off Edgartown and Chappaquidick.
Man! I'd be just as happy if that thing lived somewhere other than Miami.
Excellent idea !
The pet food bills would be horrendous however.
Sure could cut down on the jaywalkers, eh?
I think the fertility is a shot in the dark think. I've read about a cama (cross between a Llama and a camel) that turned out to be fertile.
Go ahead, kitty. Take it. Take the can also if you want.
I think its related to post #41
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