One Big Kitty

slugking50

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I got this forwarded to me yesterday. And yes RD I checked snopes first:p
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This is an amazing animal. They mated a tiger and a lion and came up with this 10 foot long "Liger."

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." 50mph runner... 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.




 

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Darn that thing's huge, good kitty, please don't eat my dogs and my kitties or me for that matter. I think I'll pass on starting an argument with it. Surprised he didn't eat the whole bottle instead of just drinking the milk.
 
A little extra research uncovered this pic -- it has a mouth large enough to fit your head whole inside. :eek:
Now a REAL tough guy would reach inside THIS kitty's mouth and pull out ITS tongue. Any volunteers? ;)
 

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Bricklayer said:
A little extra research uncovered this pic -- it has a mouth large enough to fit your head whole inside. :eek:
Now a REAL tough guy would reach inside THIS kitty's mouth and pull out ITS tongue. Any volunteers? ;)

I think I just heard VF21 volunteer.
 
You honestly think I could do something cruel to an animal? :(

Hey, I'll kick trolls out all day long but I live in the forest among animals. I couldn't intentionally hurt any of them, which is why there are a couple of raccoons who seem to think it's my role in life to make sure there's something good in my garbage can for them whenever they come through this part of the forest. One of them has actually come up to my back door and stared in, apparently thinking it was a "drive thru."
 
Here's an another surprise from Animal Kingdom. Not sure, someone'd posted it before, if yes then my apologies. :o

MSNBC
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:00 a.m. ET Jan. 8, 2004

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3845750/

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49 feet long and weighs nearly 990 pounds, a local official said.

If confirmed, it would be the largest snake ever kept in tivity.

Hundreds of people have flocked to see the snake at a primitive zoo in Curugsewu village on the country’s main island of Java.

Local government official Rachmat said the reticulated python measured 48 feet 8 inches and weighed in at 983 pounds.

The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest ever captured snake to be 32 feet. The heaviest — a Burmese Python kept in Gurnee, Ill. — weighs 402 pounds, the book said on its Web site.

The Indonesian newspaper Republika said the snake, which was caught last year but only recently put on public display, eats three or four dogs a month.

Reticulated pythons are the world’s longest snakes. They are capable of eating animals as large as sheep, and have been known to attack and consume humans.

The species is native to the swamps and jungles of Southeast Asia.
 
Snopes is the best "Urban Legend" debunker around. Once you've started using it, you won't be able to understand how you ever did without it.

You're welcome.

:D
 
has anyone seen the "big cats" you can buy now. they have been bred over the years and look just like a tiger, lion, cheetah etc. but are the size of dog?
 
VF21 said:
You honestly think I could do something cruel to an animal? :(

Hey, I'll kick trolls out all day long but I live in the forest among animals. I couldn't intentionally hurt any of them, which is why there are a couple of raccoons who seem to think it's my role in life to make sure there's something good in my garbage can for them whenever they come through this part of the forest. One of them has actually come up to my back door and stared in, apparently thinking it was a "drive thru."


raccoon drive thru, that was hysterical, you owe me a keyboard, where do I send the bill?
 
Can you imagine how early humans must have felt about Sabertooth Tigers? Primates were large in their diets. I wonder what it costs to feed that beast?
 
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