List of cats found in india

[Hello]

(04-28-2020, 11:19 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-01-2020, 03:21 PM)Hello Wrote: IMO they seem to be Afro-Asiatic hybrids.I can see African on their face,mane and body and this report says 271 kg for the male and 160 kg for female

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https://www.deccanherald.com/content/643170/lion-picture.html

I have my serious doubts about those weights, it seems to large for Asiatic lions, speciallly in captivity. Although the article is from 2017, we must remember that in 2009 an article about the weight of captive tigers and lions in Indian Zoos was published by Sadanand D Sontakke and others. In that document they used lions from the Bannerghatta Biological Park, Bangalore, Karnataka (the original place of this lion) and in the final sample of 22 males (2 male lions of that park included) the heaviest was of 180 kg, in the investigations of other posters here had not found any Asiatic male lions, in "first world" country zoos, weighing more than 200 kg.

It will be perfect to confirm those weights, but like the investigations of Shadow had showed, most of the time the figures reported in news articles are not correct.

I think those weights are just attention grabbers and article says ''AROUND''  271 KG which is more likely an estimate. Reply