Tue 6 Jun 2006
In Napoleon Dynamite, Jon Heder’s character describes a Liger, “It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed…bred for its skills in magic.”
While not typically bred for its skills in magic, it is quite an amazing animal, descending from a male lion and a female tiger. Hercules, a liger at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, in Miami, Florida, stands 10 feet tall on his hind legs and weighs over 1,000 pounds.
Ligers are not to be confused with Tigons, which are the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion and are much smaller in size. Link