The Most Massive Animals Roaming Planet Earth

Ligers Are Real

No, they're not just a made-up animal from Napoleon Dynamite—Ligers are actually real. Hercules, a male liger living at the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve, weighs 922 pounds! He is 131 inches long and 49 inches tall. Ligers, however, are not able to reproduce, so they're more of a man-made anomaly. 

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