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(11-28-2019, 11:44 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(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.

That photo is the reason why I say, that Jaipur was a sad case :/ What comes to Guinness and tiger claimed to have been 389 kg, they recently changed the text and it isn´t anymore said to be certain. And yes, the tiger in Smithsonian museum doesn´t look like to be that huge. If I have understood right, it´s a little bit shorter than Jaipur (body length). 

I have said it before and I do think, that 300 kg is upper limit or very close to it, what even an exceptional big cat can weight (tiger or lion) and still could be able to survive in the wild (still agile and fast enough to catch something). One reason is, that every captive big cat which I have seen and has really been over 300 kg (for sure or most probably) have had signs of obesity. Imo 389 tiger in wild should be  h u g e  if real. Way bigger than Jaipur what comes to shoulder height and body length.

Someone else can see it differently, but I´m too cynical to believe all what have been claimed in the past. Reply