It's our new favorite species - who needs nature to create for us.
"THEIR heads are shaped like a lioness, yet faint stripes and shorter legs suggest a different heritage.
Are these lions or tigers? Neither. They are ligers, a cross between a male lion and a tigress.
Four-week-old Aries hardly cuts a commanding figure as he sits on his big brother's head. Yet the cub will grow to match colossal Hercules, who weighs more than 406kg.
Ligers grow at such an explosive rate, piling on about 500g a day, that by the time Aries reaches his first birthday, he is expected to weigh more than 165kg.
In a few more years he may challenge his brother for the title of the world's biggest hybrid cat.
Standing almost 1.8m tall to the tips of his ears, Hercules has a page devoted to him in Guinness World Records.
The siblings were born at Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife reserve in South Carolina, US."
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