Captive Lion and Tiger weights

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(03-12-2020, 02:02 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(03-12-2020, 01:36 AM)tigerluver Wrote:

(03-12-2020, 01:33 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(03-12-2020, 01:28 AM)tigerluver Wrote: Thor is the son of Sabre. The website is long gone but Sabre was even larger at 481 kg. Thor also had a similar sized brother, Thunder. All the tigers were quite overweight but Sabre did have a massive frame. There used to be a photo of him where just his body was as long or longer than a couch. Only image I could find was this:

*This image is copyright of its original author

Even if Sabre was carrying 300 lbs/136 kg of extra weight, he'd still be massive.

The snapshot of wild cat weights are small and skewed by human pressures. As such, I recommend to not disregard a weight if it doesn't a preformed picture of what is reality. After all, during the existence of modern man true lions and tigers with skulls exceeding 18 inches existed (the Natodomeri lion and Kahayan tiger).

Well, that site doesn´t have even Jaipur right, so it tells quite a lot of reliability of that site and weights. It´s easy to have a 400-500 kg tiger, all it takes is to say so, when owner of some private sanctuary. No wonder, that so many people assume, that 300 kg would be nothing for tigers, when that kind of sites have done "good work".

No clue what site made that, just the photo I found with Sabre. Sabre's weight was mentioned in local new pieces and the original website, but it's been maybe even two decades since.  I cannot find any further record on the other cats but that was not the point of the photo. Here's a link to the SabreFoundation, maybe you get us some clearer info:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/SABRE-Foundation-Inc-371624322942713/

I asked from one sanctuary about one tiger, which they said to be... was it 1000 lbs. They replied that it was, but obese as could be seen from one video clip too. And that he was weighed in some "local scale". 

@Shadow 

"I asked from one sanctuary about one tiger, which they said to be... was it 1000 lbs. They replied that it was, but obese as could be seen from one video clip too. And that he was weighed in some "local scale". "


Shadow, can you tell me which sanctuary said this? And if possible, could you send me a screenshot? Thanks Reply