Bizarre Animal Facts – Liger is a Real Cat Species
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I like doing trivia questions as an ice breaker for my meeting, so I was researching animal trivia when I discovered there really is such a cat called the Liger. Correction: It is a cross bred male Lion with a female tiger, and they produce fertile offspring. It is also the largest cat species in existence and is larger even than the sabre tooth tiger. The largest living cat on earth is a Liger named Hercules who lives in Miami Florida with his trainer and weighs just over 900 pounds. The largest Liger on record in history according to the Guinness Book of world record weighed over 1700 pounds and lived to be eighteen years old in 1888.
Here is a picture of Hercules the Liger, I swear I didn’t believe it, but just look up Wiki Liger and you will be able to read all about this interesting species of cat that resulted from Tigers mating with Lions, this is not a genetic experiment or a bizarre trick, Ligers were dated back to the 1700’s and have existed for quite some time.
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Thanks for sharing your ice breaking animal trivia. I will probably be able to win a million dollars on a game show somewhere with this!
Thanks, I was fascinated, especially that the Liger somehow is a super large version and the cross breeding results in a giant species of cat.
humm. A correction would be necessary in “there really is such a cat called the Liger. It is a cross bred male Tiger with a female lioness, and they produce fertile offspring.” As Hercules’ and every other Ligers’ parents are that of a (Male) Lion and a Female Tiger. What I quoted you said about the mix is actually called a Tigon/Tigron—a hybrid of male tiger and a Lioness parentage.
You are right, I have made the correction in my blog post. I misspoke and actually described the creation of the Tigon, I mispoke when I typed, a Liger is a Male Lion, Female Tiger, Tigon is a Male Tiger and Female lion as you stated.
What a beautiful animal. I just learned of Ligers a few months ago. That is crazy that they are dated back to the 1700’s and I don’t think that most people even know that they exist.
I saw a show on tv about the Liger. I thought it was fictional until I saw it on tv. It is really cool how they can cross breed but I think it also poses many health issues. Very mixed feelings on this.
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It actually existed in Nature for centuries naturally.
1700 pounds is what the biggest Liger weighed?! Man they’re huge. I never really thought that they weighed that much at all.
well that is one interesting looking cat. a tiger and lion? that does sound like some odd experiment
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