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."

We HAVE this thread already...and with the same pics and writings...

that's cool--
doesn't mean all had seen it though--(some hadn't)

^Aight, I'm cool with that...

Here is the photo of Hercules Source of image
Largest cat I've seen!
More photos: Same Liger, different photos

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Found a video: Comparison of liger with other cats

Clearly these people should not have these animals if they can't keep them far enough apart to stop the breeding.
The liger will eventually die due to his own size it is very sad for the animal. It is all to easy to keep large dangerous animals in the US. Bet standards and licensing are serious required (and I include the rather low standards of the AZA in that).

It's a shame they keep breeding these animals, they are indeed beautiful but, lack the stable ability
to reproduce properly as only the females are fertile. The sterility in males is caused by the fact that because of the unstable genes, male ligers never reach puberty.

I imagine that the heart in a liger wouldn't be able to function properly due to the enormous size and would give out at an early age...I did read where one was 18, one 21 and one 24 when they died...Does anyone know what the normal life span of a tiger or lion is....

If I am not mistaking it's 10 to 15 years in the wild and 20 years in captivity.

Thank you Moro, I appreciate it......