Lion Predation

[Pckts]

(06-27-2014, 11:47 PM)'Pantherinae' Wrote: Hi pckts, Ulysses is a 12 year old Siberian tiger, but was 10 when this was filmed! His grand mother was found dead, and his mother was brought to Kiev ZOO ( Ukraine). 

Aslan is 10 now and was 8 then, his father was also found in the wild, in Kenya. 
 
The thing with Aslan is that he is not that fat at all, his step brother Aragon is only 180 kg. And we separate them when feeding, and both gets about the same amount of food! So Aslan is just a rarely big lion. 

They both have big amazing cages, the lions do have about 1 km2, while the tiger has almost 2,5 km2. And the cages looks like siberia and Africa. Can take some pictures when I'm back at work in 10 days if you want? [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

 

Nice info, do you have any other tigers there?
Also, how do you know Ulysses is a pure bred siberian out of curiousity?
I was surprised that Ulysses even weighed that much, compared to the larger captive siberians I have seen, Ulysses seems relatively small bodied and not exceptionally large skulled.
You would obviously know more about him than I, but comparing him to the larger captive Siberians, he seems relatively average but still large for a Siberian in the wild, maybe not in captivity though. You said he was wild gened, maybe the fact that siberians are smaller now, they wild siberians dont get much larger in captivity compared to the older siberian blood lines that may have the old larger siberians genes in them. Who knows, just a guess.

Interesting that Aslan is 70kgs larger than his brother and they are fed the same? Not sure how that could work considering you need more nutrients and calories to sustain a higher BM.

Thanks for the info, regardless.

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