(03-05-2021, 08:24 AM)Hello Wrote:

(03-03-2021, 11:42 AM)AMG-DS Wrote:

(04-02-2020, 06:14 PM)Hello Wrote: Biggest non obese lion and tigers imo
Largest amur tiger 
2)Duisburg tiger amur 280-300 kg,43.5''

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3)Kistora 282 kg,44''

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When it comes to African lions
1)Tau 265 kg

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2)Aslan 252 kg

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Asiatic lions
Mohan ,220 kg

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Lucifer,190 kg

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Paris 178 kg

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Bengals
I have seen bengals ranging from 380-470 lbs in zoos across India.IMO biggest would be 500 lbs but they are smaller compared to wild ones.

Tau is known as the largest non-obese specimen, however, we should take into account the extra weight provided by the mane. "Our analysis of mane hair strength confirmed that darker hairs are stronger, but longer hairs were generally weaker," (West, 2006, p.9). Information that leads me to assume that short dark hairs are heavier than long light ones, and as we can see, Tau´s mane is short and dark. Now, there is no evidence to prove the weight of a lion's mane, however, if we take into account that a 7-year-old Great Pyrenees lost 35 lbs in fur, we can assume that the mane of a lion would likely weigh between 5 - 20 kg, 245 - 260 kg for Tau without the mane.
Now, I believe that there are some other lions that may have been as large or perhaps larger than Tau, just like Jimbo a 230 kg specimen of Black Jaguar White Tiger Sanctuary, which is an old specimen (about 23 years old), while Tau weighed 265 at 3 - 4 years old, perhaps Jimbo was even larger than Tau during his prime age. Despite Jimbo having a belly fold, his entire body frame appears more muscular than Tau´s body frame.
There is also another big young male; Hasani a 249 kg (about 6 years old), specimen that seems very muscular and could perhaps reach Tau's weight in the future. Let us take into account that Hasani weighed 180 kg in 2017, and reached 249 kg in 2019.

Regarding the largest non-obese tiger, I shall mention Samson, a Siberian tiger that weighed 318 kg in 2018, which was estimated to have weighed as much as 340 kg without being obese.

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Tau also had a brother who weighed 270 kg at the time of his death. Samson doesn't look pure amur and almost every tigers in private zoos in US are dubbed as either Amurs or Bengals unless a DNA test is done.