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04-10-2015, 07:21 PM( This post was last modified: 04-10-2015, 07:34 PM by Amnon242 )
240 kg for bengal tigers and 180 kg for asiatic lions? We usually deal with numbers like 220 kg and 160 kg...I think these numbers are more realistic. BTW 220 kg tiger is still impressive monster. And even 160 kg lion is definitely no joke.
BTW I have a book about from Czech zoologist Zdenek Veselovsky (in my country even more respected than V.Mazak) who studied tigers in Kaziranga. This book is about Kaziranga (tigers, rhinos, birds, etc.) and he says that adult bengal tiger is 220-230 kg. Interesting that various sources give basically the same (or simmilar) weights...