The Guinness Book of World Records lists Hercules the liger as the largest living cat on Earth–at 12 feet long and weighing more than 900 pounds. He’s lion/tiger crossbreed with the appetite of both animals combined, consuming 25 pounds of meat and a gallon of water a day. Hercules resides at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S) in South Carolina, and was the offspring of an accidental romp between a female tiger and male lion.

Ligers are the result of male lions and female tigers crossbreeding, and are larger than either lions or tigers – unlike tiglons (male tiger/female lion crossbreeds), which are the same size as their parents.

After the jump, an image of a tiger/lion and a tiger/cheetah!

This is a tiglon (male tiger/female lion crossbreeds):

This is a Tiger/cheetah: