Captive Lion and Tiger weights

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Info on weight of a tiger from Tiger Oasis.

http://www.chovzvirat.cz/clanek/293-oaza-sibirskych-tygru/

...nejtěžší tygr p. Iršové váží 420 kg a když jsem stála vedle něho, neměla jsem pocit, že by byl tlustý - byl to prostě jen pořádný a dobře stavěný" kousek".

...heaviest tiger of mrs. Irsova weighs 420 kg and when I stood next to him, I didnt have an impression that he was fat - it was just a massive and well built "piece". 

(Mrs. Irsova is the owner of Tiger Oasis). 

Unconfirmed, but...well, its an information, everybody is free to opinion...

My opinion is that the one who wrote it, simply remembered wrongly what the owner told her. She told her 320 kg. I have similar experience with one breeeder. He told me that his amur was 340 kg when he came to the zoo (he was at his prime then). What I saw was a classical amur - 220 kg. I told him "you mean 240 kg". He insisted that he was 340 kg. When we met next time, he told me that I was right. 

Another thing is that the visitor is Czech and the owner is Slovak. These languages are similar and mutually intelligible, but still one can easily mishear/misunderstand the exact figure. Very probably it was "X hundered twenty" The question is what is X. 2 is too low for heaviest amur from TO. 4 is simply too much. 3 is a lot, but not impossible. Another question is whether the tiger has been weighted or just estimated. Well....X20 kg is obviously a rounded figure, but it seems to be based on weighing...estimated figure would be probably something like X00 or X50.

320 kg for non obese tiger is certainly an extreme and there are reasons to doubt this figure...but on the other hand we have seen the photos from Tiger Oasis...    
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