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It's a lion & a tiger, and man is it huge!
Big cat breeder Dr. Bhagavan Antle and trainer Moksha Bybee feed Hercules, the liger.
Lion + tiger = liger.
The result of that equation is a 10-foot-long, 900 pound freak of nature named Hercules that is fast becoming one of Miami's hottest attractions.
"It's not something you see every day," said big cat breeder Dr. Bhagavan Antle. The spawn of a daddy lion and a mommy tiger, Hercules is a rarity indeed - just one of about a dozen ligers in the world, said Antle.
"They are not very common," added Dr. Patrick Thomas, curator of mammals at the Bronx Zoo. "They don't mate in the wild."
Antle, whose liger has been wowing crowds at Miami's Parrot Jungle Island attraction, said Hercules was a happy accident: "We just happened to have a male lion and a female tiger in the same compound and they fell in love."
Hercules sports his father's mane and his mother's stripes. He roars like a lion and swims like a tiger (lions loathe the water).
"He's already bigger than his parents and he's still growing," Antle said. "I expect he'll be 12-feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds when he's fully grown."
Look at tht thing... :cool2:
Big cat breeder Dr. Bhagavan Antle and trainer Moksha Bybee feed Hercules, the liger.
Lion + tiger = liger.
The result of that equation is a 10-foot-long, 900 pound freak of nature named Hercules that is fast becoming one of Miami's hottest attractions.
"It's not something you see every day," said big cat breeder Dr. Bhagavan Antle. The spawn of a daddy lion and a mommy tiger, Hercules is a rarity indeed - just one of about a dozen ligers in the world, said Antle.
"They are not very common," added Dr. Patrick Thomas, curator of mammals at the Bronx Zoo. "They don't mate in the wild."
Antle, whose liger has been wowing crowds at Miami's Parrot Jungle Island attraction, said Hercules was a happy accident: "We just happened to have a male lion and a female tiger in the same compound and they fell in love."
Hercules sports his father's mane and his mother's stripes. He roars like a lion and swims like a tiger (lions loathe the water).
"He's already bigger than his parents and he's still growing," Antle said. "I expect he'll be 12-feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds when he's fully grown."
Look at tht thing... :cool2:
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