Part lion, part tiger, he is not just a big cat but a huge one,
standing 10ft tall on his back legs.
Called a liger, in reference to his crossbreed parentage,
he is the largest of all the cat species.
 On a typical day he will devour 20lb of meat, usually beef or
chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting.
At just three years old, Hercules already weighs half a ton.

He is the accidental 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."