Lion and Tiger Fight Interaction in Zoo, Circus or Any Other Captive Places

[GreenGrolar]

(10-09-2019, 08:07 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(10-09-2019, 07:42 PM)Spalea Wrote:

(10-09-2019, 07:20 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(10-09-2019, 07:13 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Pckts :

About #104:

The lion "Cheongi" was 5 years old and weighed 110 kilos.
The tigress "Hobi" was 6 years old and weighed 90 kilos.

Perhaps being captive they were still subadult, but I don't think so and  in wild they would be in their best period of vigour, power. So yes, I repeat they might be underfed, both could easily weigh 40 kilos more (without being 220 kilos monsters as you told).

You cannot compare captive to wild, Wild cats have the best genetics possible and are forced to grow fast or die while captive cats have no need to live by the law of survival of the fittest. Even in the wild you have adult lions and Tigers who have been under 90kg and under 160kg respectively and they were prime aged.
Also, they're both still around 2 years away from their primes in the wild.

OK, I don't want to be disagree with you... Even if it doesn't seem like many as being captive lion's ant tigress's weight.

I remind having watched and drawn a young male lion already weighing 200 kilos (according to the keepers) when he was 5 years old at a zoo from Paris. OK Paris is under temperate climate and the meals (horse flesh) rich in protein... Perhaps you would have qualified this lion as a monster, . He was very unruly, turbulent.

Humans males can be 5'3" 100lbs all the way to 7'6" 500lbs, like us animals can run a wide range.
In the wild, the biggest, strongest cats usually pass their Genes on, in captivity that isn't the case.

It could also be that those weights are simply an estimate as well, we've seen numerous misquoted weights from zoo employees in the past.

Personally, just as mankind have giants and dwafts among them, I believe that there are giants and dwafts among tigers and lions and other animals for the matter of fact. Reply