Captive Lion and Tiger weights

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(04-06-2020, 06:25 PM)Hello Wrote:

(04-06-2020, 05:20 PM)Amnon242 Wrote:

(04-06-2020, 09:58 AM)Hello Wrote:

(04-06-2020, 04:42 AM)Amnon242 Wrote: and what about this one?

Why they are so unusually large compared to other amurs?

Hard to say...perhaps they are of Manchurian line?

But I know one family who has private zoo, lions, leopards and amur and white bengal tigers. And those tigers are also freaking huge. Oh, well...one amur is average (around 220 kg), but another amur and white bengal (they have 3 male tigers in total) absolutely dwarfed him.  And all those tigers are in very good condition. I asked him why they are so huge and so fit. He replied that it could be because his zoo is very quiet place. Animals have their privacy and dont have so much stress as in ordinary zoos. This contributes to their condition but perhaps it could also contribute to their size. 
And it could be similar in Tiger Oasis, its a private facility, much less crowded than ordinary zoos.

Here is an answer from an experienced big cat keeper Craig kennion
The captive population of Stud book Russian Siberian tigers are descended from 120 wild-caught Founders. Those private collections of Korean tigers will have come from a limited number taken from the wild & so the gene pool will be small, those few they caught in wild Korea may have been large tigers as they is always exceptions as there is exceptions in Southern Primorski. The captive Russian population range in different sizes due to a large gene pool

Craig Kennion - Gamin is registered in the International Tiger Stud book. The captive population of Stud book Amur tigers are descendents of the 138 wildcaught Founders all taken from Russia, from those taken 119 wildcaught have living descendents alive numbering about 650 descendents alive today

Craig Kennion - ive already looked in the Stud book where all the wildcaught Amur tigers was taken from, each one is Russia, when they was caught they was given a Stud book number, where they was caught & year registered. All of today's captive 650 Amurs can be traced back without interruption all the way back to their wildcaught Founders

Craig Kennion -1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s in the early 1990s it was decided no more where needed for the captive population but a zoo home would be found for any orphaned cubs. For the past several years orphaned cubs go to the tiger rehabilitation centre & after training are released into the wild



In regards to Pure Bengals

Craig Kennion- It was a few years ago i checked where all Stud book Bengals was kept, at the time they was all in India, since then its possible some may be in other countries. Only Stud book tigers can be called 100% pure Reply