Weight of TJ (tiger) from BigCatRescue

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@BoldChamp wrote


"It wasnt about youtube, just mentioning where people have stated the tiger, TJ, weighed 700 lbs. Where they said it doesnt matter. And, of course individuals will vary in size, irrespective of food intake, but i speak more in a general sense across animals of a similar size. Example; 300 captive animals are weighed, whatever species. I get the average weight, average food intake across the many, etc, and compare results with others. Thats all there is to it. Individuals will vary, but lions require a different feeding schedule, compared to tigers.
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Incorrect actually, in fact, blackjaguarwhitetiger foundation has many of them growing up together and adults as well, he removes the smaller ones (leopards/jaguars) during feeding time but always feeds the lions and tigers together when they are part of the same pride, he puts his food out on dishes and opens the gates and they all rush to a dish, if two go to the same dish he will try to separate before trouble starts, he has many videos of this. He also fasts them on sunday as well, this goes for all of his cats. The only time he will remove ones is if they become larger than the others or too food aggressive. He also adjusts their feeding schedules dependent on if they are rescued to underweight.
His account is all over the captive cats thread, feel free to take a look. None of his cats are obese, in fact once he gets them in his custody, they are beautiful and very healthy.

Here is the link to the Zoos, circuses, safaris etc. Thread
http://wildfact.com/forum/topic-zoos-cir...ity?page=8


Edit: Also, another flaw when comparing a random 300 captive cats is the fact that these cats live in completely different places, what they are fed, where its gotten from, nutrients contained and schedules of feedings all differ greatly. Not even including the fact that most are genetically deformed, hybridized would never exist in the wild nor live such a lazy and lavish lifestyle. Unless you are talking about an actual facility that has all stud books and a program in place to reintroduce their cats to the wild, they serve no real significant study observation outside of seeing a big cat for consumers. In fact, I know of one such place that is attempting to do this with jaguars at the moment and they actually never show jaguars to humans, these cats are feed via a pulley system and their habitat is enriched the same way. Feel free to check them out on Instagram

There account is called
jaguarsintothewild Reply