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The explanation is plausible here, except those fat captive specimens, a 280kg captive lion in shape is considered to be an absolute giant.
To me, the captive lions max out about 280-300kg in the good physical shape, while those 300kg+ ones are clearly the fat specimens, unlike the giant captive tigers.