Freak Specimens

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(06-07-2014, 06:53 PM)'TheLioness' Wrote: Thats your opinion, your intitled to it [img]http://afox11.dyndns-pics.com/Helen/g/hag1175.jpg" class="lozad max-img-size" alt="" title="">

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I'm trying to figure out if this is accidental information on here, because if it is not, holy cow. (estimated though) she does not look this big, wonder who estimated her? I have emailed them to see if they actually got a weight on her.
http://tbasine.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/...nd-verity/

"She was quite a large cat and in great body condition (on the scale here from 1-5, she was determined to be a 5).  She was estimated to weight around 280 kg, which is around 616 lbs!"

I highly doubt this to be accurate at all, her weight could be anywhere from 95kg-180kg. But to think it was true, my goodness what a lioness. [img]images/smilies/wink.gif[/img]


P.S. your kinda doing what I'm doing, I posted the lioness was said to be around 500 pounds then you reply with two tigresses with no proof other than an email that said "female Siberian tigers weight is around 500 pounds" it sounds like it wasn't even talking about that certain tigress. You posted that estimate then say we don't accept them, however you posted yours and I assume you believe it? Why is my estimates less believable than yours?

Of course im asking in a polite manner, not trying to be mean or anything, just stating what I'm feeling.
 

 

 

 

You do yourself a more harm than good when quoting these "guesses".
If we still went off "estimates" than Siberian Tigers would average 300kg and 400kg tigers would not be unheard of. But of course, we know better now, because we use actual fact, weights, measurements and data. So while you can use all the estimated weights you would like, none of them will be used in actual scientific records when, let's say: finding the largest captive lioness or average captive weight, etc...
People make absurd estimates all the time, especially in the older days.
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