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S.C. liger named world's largest feline
upi ^ | Sept. 13, 2013

Posted on 09/14/2013 11:13:07 AM PDT by JoeProBono

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.,- Guinness World Records announced the latest edition of its book includes a 922-pound South Carolina liger dubbed the world's largest living feline.

Sara Wilcox, public relations and marketing executive for Guinness World Records North America, said Hercules the Myrtle Beach liger, a hybrid of a lion and a tiger, appears in the 2014 "Guinness Book of World Records" as the world's largest feline, weighing in at 922 pounds and measuring 131 inches long and 49 inches tall at his shoulder, The Sun News (Myrtle Beach) reported Friday.

Hercules lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve's area known as TIGERS -- The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species.

"We just knew that the largest living cat probably was the liger," Wilcox said. "We have not measured a liger before ... We are aware of other ligers."


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping; liger; lion; tiger; tigon
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1 posted on 09/14/2013 11:13:07 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: Slings and Arrows

ping


2 posted on 09/14/2013 11:14:04 AM PDT by Perdogg (Cruz-Paul 2016)
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To: JoeProBono

Good for keeping away nuisance... everything.


3 posted on 09/14/2013 11:16:13 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: JoeProBono

AWWWWWW!!!!!
Something tells me that that kitty’s quite the bed hog.


4 posted on 09/14/2013 11:16:37 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: JoeProBono

That’s a big.....kitty.


5 posted on 09/14/2013 11:17:31 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: JoeProBono

Brings new meaning to Caturday

What does a 800 pound cat get...


6 posted on 09/14/2013 11:18:50 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Perdogg

I’m not cleaning his litterbox.


7 posted on 09/14/2013 11:19:21 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: JoeProBono

Kitteh iz not FAT.

Kitteh is FLUFFY.


8 posted on 09/14/2013 11:21:11 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: JoeProBono

“It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic. “


9 posted on 09/14/2013 11:21:25 AM PDT by Flag_This (Term limits.)
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To: RandallFlagg

Tiger cubs are cute!


10 posted on 09/14/2013 11:23:29 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

I have to wonder if the bigger a Liger gets the more gentle it gets because it doesn’t get a Napoleon complex...

That being said I wouldn’t want to in the same county as this creature, LOL


11 posted on 09/14/2013 11:25:21 AM PDT by GraceG
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12 posted on 09/14/2013 11:26:06 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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13 posted on 09/14/2013 11:26:07 AM PDT by Califreak (11/6/12 The Day America Divided By Zero)
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To: JoeProBono

Ligers and Bears and ... and ..... oh, my!


14 posted on 09/14/2013 11:27:06 AM PDT by mikrofon (Nice K-k-k-kitty)
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To: JoeProBono

“Tiger cubs are cute!”

And tough on furniture!


15 posted on 09/14/2013 11:28:26 AM PDT by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of 0bama's America)
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To: JoeProBono

What do you call the owners of the largest feline?? LUNCH!


16 posted on 09/14/2013 11:28:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: JoeProBono
That's nothing.

I crossbred my liger with my pet sparrow.


17 posted on 09/14/2013 11:31:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: JoeProBono

This one will need a beach size litterbox.


18 posted on 09/14/2013 11:34:07 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: JoeProBono

I bet this guy could go through a bunch of those little cans of cat food.


19 posted on 09/14/2013 11:35:22 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: JoeProBono

These animal handlers appear to have a death wish. I hope for their sakes that the odds don’t finally catch up with them.


20 posted on 09/14/2013 11:38:10 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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