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Hercules, the largest non-obese liger, is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest living cat on Earth, weighing 418.2 kg (922 lb).
That’s according to Wikipedia.
Hercules was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360, Inside Edition, and in a Maxim article in 2005, when he was only three years old and already weighed 408.25 kg (900 lb).
Hercules is healthy and is expected to live a long life.
The cat’s breeding is said to have been a complete accident.
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According to Wikipedia, the liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris).
The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species.
It is distinct from the similar hybrid tigon, and is the largest of all known extant felines.
They enjoy swimming, which is a characteristic of tigers, and are very sociable like lions.
Notably, ligers typically grow larger than either parent species, unlike tigons.
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