Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

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(09-25-2019, 06:31 PM)Hello Wrote: Kevin's Lionesses look Large in frame,They are south African IMO S.African lions have larger dimension compared to other Lion subspecies like Ranthambore tigers.Those tigers are like S African Lions of tiger world.I mean they are very tall at shoulders and lean with a tucked up belly.

Some larger frame sized lionesses.The sanctuary lions,tigers,bears once used to include weights on their official site ,I remember 470-480 lbs.There's a male named Bakari Impressive in weight at 550 lbs but same frame size that of those lionesses.

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Ranthambore Tigers are no larger in frame than elsewhere, this has been confirmed by numerous people who've seen them and other Tigers from different parts of India. I've been to Lions, Tigers and Bears and fed one of their male lions and their young tiger who was confiscated from the Rapper, Tyga.
They definitely have a couple of huge Lioness and their Tigress there is large too just further off so I couldn't see her as well. I posted a video of their new male white tiger which was said to be 500lbs interacting with their 2 large lioness.  He was a shorter, squatty male but more dense than the lioness but I'd say they're close in size overall. They also have a white Lion there who's also large framed but thinner than their tawny like what you see elsewhere.
But I've yet to see a captive Lion or Tiger as large as the ones I've seen in the wild. Captive cats generally aren't as muscular *muscle definition* but they usually are more robust but in an unnatural sort of way, you can tell they need to drop some weight. The Lions I saw in Tanzania definitely seem taller than most Captive Lions and the male Tiger I saw in Kanha absolutely dwarfed any captive Tiger I've seen. Reply