Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

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"However bigcat rescue has stated her weight is close to 500 lbs on their website and youtube videos."
Where did you see Big Cat Rescue stating her weight to be 500lbs on their website?
This is all I could find


http://bigcatrescue.org/nikita-3/
"Nikita has flourished under our care.  She has grown into a tall, lanky, healthy lioness. "
Not usually the description of a record lioness


"Plus they state she is bigger than the male lions. "
Where did they state that? A random visitors pintrest is the only place I saw it, the keeper said she is a larger "lioness" not comparable to a male and said that her prior cage mate was larger than she is. Which if she was her alleged weight, that would make the other female a 600lber, which is not likely.




Another interesting note is that Big Cat Rescue has a Tiger named Nikita
NIKITA
Male Siberian Tiger
DOB 8/20/95 – DOD 1/22/15
Rescued 10/21/07


Nakita is a large tiger weighing in at nearly 600 pounds at his prime. He had been raised with Simba, Joseph, and Sasha and the four shared an enclosure prior to coming to Big Cat Rescue. When the group initially arrived they remained together, but over time the tigers and lions became less tolerant of each other.

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Joseph and Sasha were given their own spacious enclosure as well as Nakita and Simba. The two pairs lived a glorious life of luxury for many years. Sadly both Simba and Sasha have since passed away leaving behind Nakita and Joseph.
Nakita and Joseph have been moved to neighboring enclosures, but have shown no interest in a reunion. Nakita has undergone eye surgery on both of his eyes. While his eyes appear cloudy he can still see quite well thanks to specialist Dr. Miller.
Nakita is a big swimmer and absolutely loves his time in the Vacation Rotation Enclosure where he can cool off in a large pond or splash in the water fountain. The Vacation Rotation Enclosure is a 2.5 acre playground with lots of trees, a swimming pond, jungle gym platforms, and lots of dens and climbing hills. Each of our lions and tigers is on a rotating schedule and gets to spend two weeks at a time in this fun space.

http://bigcatrescue.org/nikita-tiger/

Obviously he wasn't as large as Shere Khan like one of the keepers estimated, but still very large.



And here is another Nikita tigress claimed to be 500lbs, mate of Baikal, who was said to be 850lbs but much less at time of death, so who knows. Just shows, unless these cats are sedated, put on a veterinarians table and weighed, we really don't know.

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and even this one ^ isn't confirmed by any means. Reply