Editing Liger (section)

===Records===
[[File:Ligertrainer.jpg|thumb|Hercules the liger and his trainer [[Bhagavan Antle]]]]

Hercules, the largest non-obese liger, is recognised by the ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of World Records]]'' as the largest living cat on Earth, weighing {{cvt|418.2|kg}}.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-living-cat |title = Largest living cat |access-date = 2022-09-10 |date = 2022 |publisher = Guinness World Records}}</ref><ref name=Hercules>{{Cite news|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/hercules-liger-worlds-largest-cat-photos_n_3920158.html|title = Hercules, 922-Pound Liger, Is The World's Largest Living Cat (PHOTOS)|work = [[The Huffington Post]]|access-date = 31 January 2015}}</ref> Hercules was featured on the ''[[Today (NBC program)|Today Show]]'', ''[[Good Morning America]]'', ''[[Anderson Cooper 360]]'', ''[[Inside Edition]]'', and in a ''[[Maxim (magazine)|Maxim]]'' article in 2005, when he was only three years old and already weighed {{cvt|408.25|kg}}.

The Valley of the Kings Animal Sanctuary in [[Wisconsin]] had a male liger named Nook who weighed over {{cvt|550|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}.<ref name=ligerfacts2016/><ref name="LigerWorldNook">{{cite web |work=Liger World |title=Liger Nook - Liger Profile |url=http://www.ligerworld.com/nook-the-liger.html |access-date=23 April 2018}}</ref>

To compare, the records for the lion and tiger [[Captive animal|in captivity]] are under {{cvt|1100|lbs}}.<ref name="Wood1983">{{cite book |last=Wood |first=G. L. |year=1983 |title=The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats |publisher=Sterling Publishing |isbn=978-0-85112-235-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofan00wood }}</ref><ref name="LSPC1941">{{cite news |publisher=Leonard Scott Publishing Company |title=The Nineteenth Century and After |volume=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylEQAAAAIAAJ&q=Samson,+1,000-pound+African |year=1941 |access-date=17 March 2018}}</ref>