Freak Specimens

[Siegfried]

This is great because there is a human for scaling purposes.  I suppose he could be a midget, but he looks sort of average to me.

Therefore, this seems to be a freakishly tall cat and worthy of his placing in the sacred hall of Freak Specimens. 

Now as far as his claimed weight of "about 640 pounds" goes...   While not as bulky as some, he is certainly more bulky than others.  If we are to believe ANY of the claimed 800 pound big cats as legit, this particular cat's combination of exceptional height with even average bulk SHOULD be a reasonable recipe for a big cat "about" 150 pounds lighter.  Right?

There is a tiger 2 or 3 enclosures to the left that you can see early in the video.  I wonder what the keeper would have said was his "about" weight.
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