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RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Pckts - 10-27-2017

I think the article mentions a 160kg for a female and 180kg for a male, No clue if that is correct though since my Chinese is a little rusty.


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - GrizzlyClaws - 10-27-2017

(10-27-2017, 01:05 AM)Pckts Wrote: I think the article mentions a 160kg for a female and 180kg for a male, No clue if that is correct though since my Chinese is a little rusty.

It is Japanese.


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Betty - 10-27-2017

Shizuoka Municipal Nihondaira Zoo


18-year-old female Siberian tiger, weighing about 160kg, body length of about 180cm.

http://www.at-s.com/news/article/local/c...03602.html

This video has two Siberian tigers, 18-year-old female tigers and her 6-year-old son.







RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Betty - 10-27-2017

(10-26-2017, 11:01 PM)Amnon242 Wrote: That tiger is transgender

This video has two Siberian tigers, 18-year-old female tigers and her 6-year-old son.


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Rishi - 10-31-2017


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Paignton zoo asiatic lioness weighing 20 Stones (roughly 130 kg) has one of the teeth taken out.


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Pckts - 10-31-2017


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That was 7 month's ago, Alcyone is just around 3 atm, may be a bit younger still but he's turning into a big boy, he's getting as large as his older brothers.


This was his weight yesterday

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RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Betty - 11-03-2017

Russian tiger Martin settling into new digs at The Denver Zoo

But Denver Zoo officials are already celebrating Martin, the 3-year-old, 450-pound Amur tiger, as he hangs out behind the scenes at the City Park cultural institution.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/06/russian-tiger-martin-arrives-denver-zoo/


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RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - paul cooper - 11-06-2017

Zoo keeper at a zoo talks about a Male Amur tiger, and its size.
"just under 250 kg"



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RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Betty - 11-06-2017

All 137 tigers removed from Tiger Temple of Thailand

The last tiger being dealt with is a male one named Sayfa (thunderbolt), with a weight of 300 kg.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-06/04/c_135412516.htm


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Pckts - 11-09-2017

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge

WARNING Surgery Blood Graphic Content!!! Live at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. Poncho and Montana 7-year-old male tiger brothers from the Colorado Project are getting neutered. Watch the surgery live. (Weight Poncho 587lbs)






RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - paul cooper - 11-09-2017

There was a cub born there in the beginning of 2013, which its father was 250 kg.
http://www.ilgazetesi.com.tr/ankaranin-yavru-kaplani-cango-3-aylik-oldu-197778h.htm
TRANSLATION OF PAGE:
Noting that the mother who did not care for her mother was very hard to live, Manager Sancar said: "We live in a province so we have 3 months old female tangerine Cango, which is our joy every day until 5:00 pm At the Zoo, our veterinarian and carer are in the custody of my mother and the special duty doctor on duty at night when she is hungry at night.Many 200, her father 250 kg Cango, is now a healthy 8 kg pound tiger.It is very cute.However, when I say to my carers and veterinarians, We are looking at your child and being deceived, but with his nails and his teeth he is now a tiger and he is starting to find his true nature and he will soon be moved to the bar of the new bar. "[News information] Source: Ankara's puppy tiger 'Cango' was 3 months old


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - paul cooper - 11-10-2017

260kg tiger?:
"Today's tragedy follows the death of lion keeper Dalu Mncube in May 2009 at Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Garden, who was fatally mauled by a white tiger.

The 260kg tiger was shot dead shortly after the attack."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11515997


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - paul cooper - 11-11-2017

"The woman bought a 200kg live tiger from a person in Nghệ An Province for VNĐ5 million (US$224)"

Read more at http://vietnamnews.vn/society/377156/five-prosecuted-for-illegally-transporting-live-tiger.html#1y9FWBtrByaCYOVG.99
^^^Cruel as fuck


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - paul cooper - 11-11-2017

3 180 - 185 kg tigers 6 years old at that time
"The brothers are half of a litter of quadruplets born June 1, 2010. Thimbu, who can be distinguished by his lighter colored fur and freckled nose, is taller, longer and lighter than his brother, weighing under 400 pounds. Nikolai, who is relaxed and playful, is the largest of the zoo’s three tigers, weighing just over 400 pounds."
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/16/denver-zoo-tigers-teeth-cleaning/

..dont even ask how i find this




News report from July 31, 1979  O.O
200kg Tigress

"Khairi, who was brought to Choudhury, the director and conservator of forests, as a frail and bony seven-week old cub, in October 1974, is now a 200-kg power pack..."


RE: Captive Lion and Tiger weights - Betty - 11-11-2017

The Cat Haven, a private sanctuary east of Fresno, remained closed on Thursday, a day after Dianna Hanson was killed by a 350-lb (160-kg) male Barbary lion named Cous Cous that attacked her inside an enclosure. Hanson was from the Seattle area.

http://news.trust.org/item/20130308035800-vmgy0


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