Captive Lion and Tiger weights

[Hello]

(04-06-2020, 05:20 PM)Amnon242 Wrote:

(04-06-2020, 09:58 AM)Hello Wrote:

(04-06-2020, 04:42 AM)Amnon242 Wrote: and what about this one?

Why they are so unusually large compared to other amurs?

Hard to say...perhaps they are of Manchurian line?

But I know one family who has private zoo, lions, leopards and amur and white bengal tigers. And those tigers are also freaking huge. Oh, well...one amur is average (around 220 kg), but another amur and white bengal (they have 3 male tigers in total) absolutely dwarfed him.  And all those tigers are in very good condition. I asked him why they are so huge and so fit. He replied that it could be because his zoo is very quiet place. Animals have their privacy and dont have so much stress as in ordinary zoos. This contributes to their condition but perhaps it could also contribute to their size. 
And it could be similar in Tiger Oasis, its a private facility, much less crowded than ordinary zoos.

Here is an answer from an experienced big cat keeper Craig kennion
The captive population of Stud book Russian Siberian tigers are descended from 120 wild-caught Founders. Those private collections of Korean tigers will have come from a limited number taken from the wild & so the gene pool will be small, those few they caught in wild Korea may have been large tigers as they is always exceptions as there is exceptions in Southern Primorski. The captive Russian population range in different sizes due to a large gene pool Reply