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Guinness Record Hercules | Largest Living Cat Liger

     11th Feb' 2010,

Hercules, the largest non-obese liger, a hybrid cross between his lion father and his tigress mother. It is the largest of all cats and extant felines.

Jungle Island, an interactive animal theme park in Miami, is home to Hercules, who is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest living cat on Earth, weighing in at over 410 kg (904 lb). Hercules was also featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360, Inside Edition and in a Maxim magazine article in 2005, when he was only 3 years old and already weighed 408.25 kg (900 lb) at the time.

Hercules belong to the T.I.G.E.R.S. family of animal ambassadors, who put on the "Tale of the Tiger" show on Jungle Island every day.