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 It is less than half the size of a typical domestic cat, standing only seven inches high at the shoulders and usually weighing less than three pounds.
The largest cat is the Tiger, Panthera tigris.
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| A large male weighs as much as 700 pounds and is ten to eleven feet in length (not including the three-foot-long tail)! Tigers can eat eighty pounds of meat at one sitting. |
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