Freak Specimens

[GuateGojira]

(11-28-2019, 11:37 PM)Shadow Wrote: Yes, they have made changes. For instance Jaipur is a sad "case". He would have deserved an owner caring about his health, not the one interested in getting name in the Book of the Records. What comes to wild animals, most of the old records are at best in category "possible in some way... maybe... or not" :)

This is the only picture that I know of Jaipur:

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It was huge by all means, but also was very obvese, look how big was his belly.

About the old records, the main problem is that we need verification. Check the famous records tiger of 389 kg and the record lion of 313 kg. They were "verified" and accepted by Guinness, but when we see the evidence, the pictures shows animals of quite normal size. The giant animals can and do exist, but we must be carefull with thsoe figures. That is why I don't include exceptional animals in my tables, and the scientific figures are the normal maximum accepted. Figure about that, are clasified as "exceptional" and may or may not reliable, depending of the source. Reply