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08-08-2019, 12:29 PM( This post was last modified: 08-08-2019, 03:14 PM by Shadow )
One more about Igor, I asked from Odense zoo about it just for curiosity and also getting some perspective when making estimations about tigers.
Quote from reply:
"It's a bit difficult to give you an exact answer, as we haven't written Igor's measurements down anywhere, so it's mostly from memory.
I asked Igor's zookeeper, and she remembers weighing him at around 215-220 kilos. That's without his tail, by the way, as they had some trouble fitting both body and tail on the scale."
After that I asked again and attached also their brochure from 2013. I asked if there is some more information still. A got this today:
"220 kilos doesn't sound like an awful lot when looking at him, but you have to factor in his tail as well. I'm told by the zookeepers that it may weigh as much as 15 kilos, bringing him up in the vicinty of the 250 kilos mentioned in the articles you've linked.
That being said, he was no doubt heavier at some point. He lost weight due to his illness, because he couldn't move as well as he used to. But as we only weigh our tigers when they are sedated, we haven't got an exact weight of him at his heaviest, as there (luckily) weren't any reason to sedate him.
The 250 kilos mentioned in our annual report from 2013 are our best guess at his weight in his prime. He might have been a bit heavier, but I'm told by the zookeepers that 300 kilos is a stretch too far."