Captive Lion and Tiger weights

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(06-18-2019, 11:27 PM)Kingtheropod Wrote: @Shadow 

Hi, I would like to mention I to also contacted Assiniboine park zoo, and they stated they only estimate there weights. He was never actually weighed.

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This is the reason I never included Baikal in my table I made back in 2015.

Yes, I thought too, that it was estimation. When seeing what was in that blog, 700 lbs. And then seeing that estimation from people, who should be able to do quite ok estimations when actually seeing tiger there in cage and handling it, I personally think that Baikal might have been a 250-300 kg tiger in his prime. If/when it was, when older looking like quite average for zoo personnel, it is impossible to imagine, that it would have been more.

It is also well known thing, that in photos animals can look huge and make people to give wild estimations while reality is not even close. It was also interesting to see, that most well known photo, which was claimed to be Baikal was some other tiger :) A good example how false information can start to live its own life for years. I was quite surprised, when I started to look closer and saw that there in reality was nothing to confirm anything. Only clear thing was that there had been tiger named Baikal.

I don´t anymore believe to any story about siberian tigers clearly over 300 kg unless talking about more or less obese animal. All bigger ones have been so obese, that only word to describe is animal cruelty. When even people can be 500-600 kg, when unbelievably obese, naturally any big cat can be overfed to be heavy. It is in a way sad, that for instance Guinness Book of Records has accepted to put very fat captive animals as "record breakers". If some man or woman like to eat so much, that not able to move... it is one thing, but to abuse animals like that. Disgusting, imo. Reply