Wednesday, December 13, 2006

"It's Like A Lion And A Tiger Mixed...Bred For It's Skills In Magic" -Napolean Dynamite



On a typical day he will devour 20 lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100 lb at a single setting. At just three years old, Hercules already weighs half a ton.


He is the unintentional 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."
These two cats don't normally have the opportunity to breed in the wild, as most lions live in Africa and most tigers in Asia .

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 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.

Look at the size of the head on this thing..

Check out the fangs - like pre-historic days.
For you animal lovers.........and even those who aren't.
This is pretty cool.

Just a side note...this information came through the email and was not written by me. Therefore I do not take responsibility for the horrible sentence structures...and I'm not about to fix it because I would just make it worse I'm sure (sorry Lauren :0P). I just thought it was cool information and thought I'd share it. Enjoy!

1 Comments:

At 1/01/2007 3:42 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

   That's rather interesting. It also makes me think . . . since I'm a Leo and a Tiger, does that make me a "Liger" or a "Tigon"? My inability to lose weight (even while maintaining a healthy 1,000 cal diet for the past 2+ years, with exercise) seems to suggest that perhaps I'm the former rather than the latter! :)
   Thank you for sharing. Hope you had a splendid Advent (the TRUE 'new year' of the church), an even better Christmas (when God the Father gave us the greatest gift ever given, wrapped with swaddling cloths and placed in a manger), and a safe New Year (from crazy drunk heathens and sinful Christians alike)!

 

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