Freak Specimens

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(11-28-2019, 10:55 PM)Shadow Wrote: so I put here a short quote from message, which I got: 

"Nick travelled around zoos and circus’s displaying some of his animals.  In 1970, Nick bought some of his animals to Colchester zoo to display, his famous lion Simba was one of them.  At that time Nick claimed Simba was the largest captive lion in the world, which he had caught on the Serengeti Plain in 1959."

It was nice to get reply from zoo and learn what they knew and could tell. As I said, for me around 300 kg lion in wild isn´t something what I would call impossible at all. But if clearly heavier, then the more claimed weight, the more doubts start to be in mind. 

So, the lion was a wild caught from the Serengeti, but even then, its huge size can be explained only for gigantism or do to a very rich diet, he was very obvese after all.

It will be interesting to know if the lion was actually measured and weighed by people of Guinness of if Wood just quoted the figures that the Zoo provided to him. 

According with Wood, this was not a wild lion, but Nyoka purchase him as a six month old cub from the Dublin Zoo in October of 1958, and was actually weighed several times trough its life.

I have the image of the page in the book of Wood but the system is not allowing me to put it. It seems like there are problems with Imgur and I can't upload imaged in the main page too. Reply