(03-08-2020, 03:41 PM)Hello Wrote: what drugs are the keepers on

(03-11-2020, 02:12 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: Hello Everyone

I recently got in contact with Krystal Bergeron, which worked at Bergerons exotic animal sanctuary many years ago. She currently now works at 'Final Touch Construction Clean up' which is how I made contact with her.

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I asked her if she knew if Thor the tiger which allegedly weighed 450 kgs was actually weighed, here is the message I got...

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(03-11-2020, 09:22 AM)Hello Wrote:

(03-11-2020, 02:12 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: Hello Everyone

I recently got in contact with Krystal Bergeron, which worked at Bergerons exotic animal sanctuary many years ago. She currently now works at 'Final Touch Construction Clean up' which is how I made contact with her.

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I asked her if she knew if Thor the tiger which allegedly weighed 450 kgs was actually weighed, here is the message I got...

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Is he a Siberian-Bengal hybrid?

(03-11-2020, 09:30 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote:

(03-11-2020, 09:22 AM)Hello Wrote:

(03-11-2020, 02:12 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: Hello Everyone

I recently got in contact with Krystal Bergeron, which worked at Bergerons exotic animal sanctuary many years ago. She currently now works at 'Final Touch Construction Clean up' which is how I made contact with her.

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I asked her if she knew if Thor the tiger which allegedly weighed 450 kgs was actually weighed, here is the message I got...

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Is he a Siberian-Bengal hybrid?

According to a post I saw on the old AVA forum, he was a purebred Siberian.

(03-08-2020, 03:41 PM)Hello Wrote: what drugs are the keepers on

(03-11-2020, 07:22 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(03-08-2020, 03:41 PM)Hello Wrote: what drugs are the keepers on

When we are talking about sanctuaries for animals and weights of those animals, like in this video and what comes to that tiger claimed to be 450 kg, Thor. It´s good to watch this video and remember that it´s not good to believe all claims just like that. Here sanctuary owner/staff claims, that they have a lioness over 400 kg heavy (soon after 2:30). He lies just like that and he has to do it on purpose, whatever is the reason. it´s impossible to think, that these people would know nothing about lions. So only question which remains (for me) is, that why these people lie on purpose?

I believe just as much that person telling, that the lioness is over 400 kg as I believe, that Thor would be legit 450 kg tiger unless I see a photo or video of him showing, that he is clearly obese, when that weight would be at least close to realistic. Knowing, that Jaipur was a bit over 420 kg and so obese, that it´s difficult to watch photos of him, I doubt, that Thor was even closely that heavy. Big and fit tigers are after all around 250-300 kg. I don´t think, that private sanctuaries have some secret gigantic tiger subspecies to raise, they just aren´t shy when exaggerating to get more visitors and publicity (=more money).

People, as usual, are free to believe what they want, but my advice is the same as one biologist gave to me: Don´t believe everything you read or hear :)

(03-11-2020, 07:31 PM)Hello Wrote: @Shadow I contacted givskud zoo,The biologist said both Tau and Nkosi were twins

(03-08-2020, 03:41 PM)Hello Wrote: what drugs are the keepers on

(03-12-2020, 01:28 AM)tigerluver Wrote: Thor is the son of Sabre. The website is long gone but Sabre was even larger at 481 kg. Thor also had a similar sized brother, Thunder. All the tigers were quite overweight but Sabre did have a massive frame. There used to be a photo of him where just his body was as long or longer than a couch. Only image I could find was this:

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Even if Sabre was carrying 300 lbs/136 kg of extra weight, he'd still be massive.

The snapshot of wild cat weights are small and skewed by human pressures. As such, I recommend to not disregard a weight if it doesn't a preformed picture of what is reality. After all, during the existence of modern man true lions and tigers with skulls exceeding 18 inches existed (the Natodomeri lion and Kahayan tiger).