Freak Specimens

[GrizzlyClaws]

(02-27-2015, 02:15 AM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(02-27-2015, 02:08 AM)'GrizzlyClaws' Wrote: The 'Baikal' from the Calgary zoo weighs about 400 pounds, obviously less than half of the giant Baikal.


 

When Comparing Jaipur and his massive weight with body length, lets say Baikal is 243cm with a 100cm tail (just estimating)
He would be slightly longer than Jaipur and 50-60 kg less. I would still say that he is probably 80kg overweight or more when comparing him to wild counter parts.

 

 

With the size of Baikal, a wild Amur will weigh about 350+ kg, and a wild Bengal will weigh about 400-450 kg.

Considering the current wild Amur population has suffered the genetic bottleneck as the result, also the pressure from the lost of habitat, they are becoming more lightly built in proportion for some very obvious reasons.

So this giant Baikal is being well fed, and his weight proportion is in between that of the wild Amur and the wild Bengal, so he is definitely not overweighed.

I agree that he is not as muscular as the wild Bengals, but he is not overweighed either.
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