Captive Lion and Tiger weights

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I saw at some point texts concerning tiger Gamin who (passed away already) lived in Marwell Wildlife zoo. He was said to have been at some point approximately 600 lbs or 273 kg. As usually, when seeing such weights, I wrote to the zoo and asked about him.

Their answer was:

"our carnivores’ team have advised me the following:

We don’t have any carnivore staff that worked with Gamin, so we can only go by our limited records. We had 2 weights for him, 2011 – 200kg and 2012 – 217kg. In the wild Amur tigers average between 150-200kg so this would have been around the expected weight.

If 273kg is correct he was probably considerably overweight. Our current male, Bagai, is 158kg and in the prime of his life. He is in very good condition and looks what like what you would expect of an Amur tiger."



I asked also about tiger Kubwa, who has been said to have been 950 lbs. Reply was, that he has been that heavy. But owner said also, that overweight tiger. I have seen him on video and he looks like similar kind of tiger as Jaipur was. 

I attach here screenshot from Marwell Wildlife.

Ps. @Hello , I just noticed that you had Gamin in the latest posting  I didn´t notice that until now, what a coincidence, I saw Gamin mentioned in a different site. Reply

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