With a name like Hercules , you know he got to be great.
But at 922 pounds , big is an understatement for the sins of the world's largest cat , according to the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records .
Hercules is a liger - the hybrid offspring of a male lion and a tigress - living in Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve in South Carolina . He is 131 inches long , and measures 49 inches tall at the shoulder .
Ligers , which does not exist in the wild , can grow to twice the size of their parents and weigh about a hundred times more than the average house cat .
The safari, also known as Tiger - The Institution of extremely rare and Endangered Species - where tours are given by reservation , owned by Bhagavan " Doc " Antle , who also founded the Uncommon Fund species in 1982 , to help endangered wildlife around the world such as elephants , rhinos , orangutans and other big cats .
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