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Part Lion.. Part Tiger
The biggest 'kitty' you'll ever see..! The 10ft Liger who's still
growing... Daily Mail 09:12am 16th February 2005 Very big cat: Hercules at his Miami home. Click photo to enlarge. http://blogs.indiewire.com/rabbi/archives/hurcules.jpg 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. When he is fully grown he is expected to reach 12ft, and almost 90 stone. He is the accidental result of two amorous 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 Hercules has the strength of a lion and the speed of a tiger, reaching 50mph. He will also grow a mane like his father, but just a small one, and sports his mother's tiger stripes on his huge body. And when he opens his fearsome mouth he can both roar like a lion and give a purr-like snort like his mother. 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. Famous cross-breeds There are hundreds of hybrids in the animal world, some common such as the mule - a cross between a female horse and a male donkey - and some more unusual, such as the labradoodle, a mix of labrador and poodle. Other exotic hybrids include the zeedonk, a cross between a zebra and a donkey; the zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross; and the beefalo, an American bison/ domestic cow cross. Another rare creature is the wolphin, the offspring of a whale and a dolphin. Back in the big cat world zoos in Japan, Germany and Italy have bred leopons, a male leopard/lioness cross, while Salzburg Zoo in Austria has bred jaguar/leopard hybrids known as lepjags. This story first appeared in the . For more great stories like this, buy the Daily Mail every day. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...3Doff%26sa%3DG |
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HERE,KITTYKITTY!?!
"IBen Getiner" wrote in message ups.com... The biggest 'kitty' you'll ever see..! The 10ft Liger who's still growing... Daily Mail 09:12am 16th February 2005 Very big cat: Hercules at his Miami home. Click photo to enlarge. http://blogs.indiewire.com/rabbi/archives/hurcules.jpg 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. When he is fully grown he is expected to reach 12ft, and almost 90 stone. He is the accidental result of two amorous 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 Hercules has the strength of a lion and the speed of a tiger, reaching 50mph. He will also grow a mane like his father, but just a small one, and sports his mother's tiger stripes on his huge body. And when he opens his fearsome mouth he can both roar like a lion and give a purr-like snort like his mother. 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. Famous cross-breeds There are hundreds of hybrids in the animal world, some common such as the mule - a cross between a female horse and a male donkey - and some more unusual, such as the labradoodle, a mix of labrador and poodle. Other exotic hybrids include the zeedonk, a cross between a zebra and a donkey; the zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross; and the beefalo, an American bison/ domestic cow cross. Another rare creature is the wolphin, the offspring of a whale and a dolphin. Back in the big cat world zoos in Japan, Germany and Italy have bred leopons, a male leopard/lioness cross, while Salzburg Zoo in Austria has bred jaguar/leopard hybrids known as lepjags. This story first appeared in the . For more great stories like this, buy the Daily Mail every day. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...3Doff%26sa%3DG |
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And the poor giant gets to live out his days in a zoo
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IBen Getiner wrote: wrote: And the poor giant gets to live out his days in a zoo He never even would have existed if it weren't for "a zoo", you stupid friggin' MORON. He was bread there! In the wild, his parents would never even have 'been introduced'. Can't you read, or do you need an English translator with everything you try to do? IBen I fed bread to some ducks and geese in the zoo. I wonder what anomalies of nature will come from that. |
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Talking about translating English, I think you meant to say "bred"
instead of "bread" LOL |
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On Fri 10 Jun 2005 08:35:37p, IBen Getiner wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav oups.com): stammered: And the poor giant gets to live out his days in a zoo He never even wood have existed if it weren't four "a zoo," ewe stupid friggin' MORON. He was BRED their! Inn the wild, his parents wood never even have 'Ben introduced'. Can't ewe reed, oar do ewe kneed Ann English translator with everything ewe try two due? IBen Their... Happy now? At about 3pm eastern time, you wrote the same exact thing to this poster, only a little bit more literate. I get it now. It's happy hour. -- Cheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields |
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