Freak Specimens

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(12-01-2019, 10:52 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(12-01-2019, 10:26 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(12-01-2019, 09:22 PM)Pckts Wrote: I'm not talking about weight, I'm talking about physique and like @Apollo said, wild cats are filled to the brim with muscle, a 250kg wild cat is much more impressive than a 250kg captive cat,you can see it in their definition, muscle mass and vascularity.

I was and am talking about overall size and weight. And I don´t see there major differences between captive and wild. Biggest individuals look like to be quite same sized and weights are also close to each others when animals look fit.

Overall size, Wild cats are far more impressive. They're way more muscle dense, body frame is similar although Tigers were significantly larger in frame and robustness, Wild Lions are also larger in frame and robustness but I've seen a Taller cat in captivity than I have in the wild, but that was a S. African Lion compared to a E. African wild Lion. 
But in terms of impressive specimens, I've never seen anything close in captivity that compares to their wild counterparts, that goes for smaller cats as well. 

You dont see cats like these in captivity for the most part.

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Nice looking animals, but doesn´t change the way I see this. I said, that there can be some difference, but I see no reason to think, that major differences. Well, of course 20 kg is a lot of muscle if wild animal with same shoulder height and body length has that much more. It also can look a lot more impressive when a little less fat and muscles can be seen better. 

But it doesn´t change for instance it, that lion Aslan is one of the biggest known lions ever, when we talk about fit looking lions and weighed properly. There is only one wild lion known to have weighed more than him and that lion was... was it 272 or 273 kg(?).

What comes to Caesar, there is only speculation. It could have been close to 300 kg or maybe "just" 250 kg. If someone gets some confirmed information one day it will be very interesting to see. 

I am not debating here really about this matter, but giving more reasoning why I see this matter how I do. Looking more ripped doesn´t mean automatically, that bigger or weighing more. Reply