Ligers are recognized as the largest living cat on earth and greatly exceed their lion parent and tiger parent in size. The largest liger ever was named Hercules and was bred in captivity in 2002.

The tallest here is the lion, which still ... Humans can outweigh the largest leopards and even some of the smallest subspecies of others included in this big cat size comparison.

They identified 24 healthy lions from reserves in South Africa and planned to relocate them to central Mozambique—the largest lion reintroduction ever attempted. The lions’ proposed new home ...