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Captive Lion and Tiger weights
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What comes to different places and weights of captive animals, I personally don´t give value for private owners and to weights what they say in social media etc. They can exaggerate weights from various reasons either on purpose or simply because they have no idea really.
Personally I´m interested in zoos, which are members of WAZA, EAZA or some other international or at least national organizations and have educated professionals taking care of animals, real veterinarians, biologists and zookeepers. These zoos are often also participating to conservation programs and are managed in responsible way. I find it odd, that when in wild scientific records show, that average weights (males) of the biggest cats are around 200-220 kg and then in captivity weights variate quite a lot (WAZA, EAZA etc.) in between 180-250 kg, then private owners seem to have here and there 300+ kg big cats :) Of course some of those amateur owners overfeed their pets and/or feed them with food, which isn´t best possible for big cats causing obesity. This posting of @Pckts is one good example. Some person tells, that he has 340 kg tiger, but in photos it looks just one big tiger, same kind as many others, which are known to be around 220-250 kg. I don´t believe that it is 340 kg, I guess that 100 kg too much in it and 240 kg is closer to the reality. If it would look like obese tiger I would think differently. That lion, Elvis then again looks to be clearly overweight, he actually looks more like a big cat which could be approximately 300 kg, but who knows, could be less too. If just one day some of these private owners would do weighing so, that some independent and well known biologist would be there observing, but I don´t hold my breath while waiting it to happen  Everyone can of course choose what they believe, but I take seriously only... should I say professional zoos. Like those which are members in following or similar organizations: https://www.waza.org/members/waza-members/ https://www.eaza.net/members/ https://www.aza.org/about-us etc. |
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