The question is interesting as you’ll find that different experts have different opinions and there is an added complications as the phrase ‘big cats’ has two meanings. It can mean a large wild cat species or one of the official big cats, those cats that can roar: leopard, jaguar, lion and tiger. For this …
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We often read in the news media about rats being so big that they are as big as cats. Can this be true? Are people exaggerating? People tend to exaggerate when they are frightened of something. It happens all the time. Normally exaggerating the size of an animal occurs when people spot a mysterious …
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There will be a dispute about this but I believe that I have a definitive record for the largest or heaviest (should be the same) mountain lion on record because it was certified by the U.S. Biological Survey. The cat was an Arizona puma killed in 1917 by a predator hunter i.e. a sport …
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The record adult male bobcat weighed 26.8 kilograms which is 59.1 pounds. The source for this information is The bobcat of North America by SP Young.
Is this the biggest Siberian tiger in the world? He/she is captive and tame at least with this man. I don’t know who he is. Possibly one of the private zoo owners of America. The Siberian tiger is the world’s biggest cat anyway but of course they vary in size and weight. The maximum …
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Wild Cat Species by Size | To Home Page | To Wild Cat Species | To Largest Domestic Cat Breed | To World’s Biggest Cat The weights and head plus body length of all the wild cats are shown here in a spreadsheet and charts (update 2011: Scroll down to see tiger weight spreadsheet). …
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