South Carolina Liger Named World's Largest Feline

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., Sept. 13 (UPI) — Guinness World Records announced the latest edition of its book includes a 922-pound South Carolina liger dubbed the world’s largest living feline.

Sara Wilcox, public relations and marketing executive for Guinness World Records North America, said Hercules the Myrtle Beach liger, a hybrid of a lion and a tiger, appears in the 2014 “Guinness Book of World Records” as the world’s largest feline, weighing in at 922 pounds and measuring 131 inches long and 49 inches tall at his shoulder, The Sun News (Myrtle Beach) reported Friday.

Hercules lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve’s area known as TIGERS — The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species.

“We just knew that the largest living cat probably was the liger,” Wilcox said. “We have not measured a liger before … We are aware of other ligers.”