Editing Big cat (section)

===Weight range===
The range of weights exhibited by the species is large. At the bottom, adult snow leopards usually weigh {{cvt|22|to|55|kg}}, with an exceptional specimen reaching {{cvt|75|kg}}.<ref name="WCoW2002">{{Cite book |last1=Sunquist, M. |url=https://archive.org/details/wildcatsofworld00sunq/page/377 |title=Wild Cats of the World |last2=Sunquist, F. |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-226-77999-7 |location=[[Chicago]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/wildcatsofworld00sunq/page/377 377–394] |chapter=Snow leopard |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IF8nDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA378}}</ref><ref name="Boitani1984">{{Cite book |last=Boitani, L. |url=https://archive.org/details/simonschustersgu00boit |title=Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mammals |publisher=Simon & Schuster, Touchstone Books |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-671-42805-1}}</ref>

Male and female lions typically weigh {{cvt|150|-|250|kg}} and {{cvt|110|-|182|kg}} respectively,<ref name="NowellJackson1996">{{Cite book |last1=Nowell, Kristin |url=http://carnivoractionplans1.free.fr/wildcats.pdf |title=Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan |last2=Jackson, Peter |publisher=IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group |year=1996 |isbn=978-2-8317-0045-8 |location=Gland, Switzerland |pages=1–334}}</ref><ref name="nowak">{{Cite book |last=Nowak |first=Ronald M. |title=Walker's Mammals of the World |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-8018-5789-8 |location=Baltimore}}</ref> and male and female tigers {{cvt|100|-|306|kg}} and {{convert|75|-|167|kg|lb|abbr=on}} respectively.<ref name="Mazak1981">{{Cite journal |last=Mazák, V. |year=1981 |title=''Panthera tigris'' |journal=Mammalian Species |issue=152 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.2307/3504004 |jstor=3504004 |doi-access=free |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Exceptionally heavy male lions and tigers have been recorded to exceed {{cvt|306|kg}} in the [[wilderness]],<ref name="Wood1983">{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=G. L. |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofan00wood |title=The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats |publisher=Sterling Publishing |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-85112-235-9}}</ref><ref name="UPOA1963">{{Citation |title=East African Business Digest |work=University Press of Africa, with contributions from the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce & Industry |year=1963 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_JPAQAAIAAJ&q=TWO+mamuding+lions+which,+since+January+this+year,+killed+244+cattle+and+three+donkeys,+were+shot+at+lssuna+village+in+Tanganyika.+The+lions+were+found+to+weigh+700+and+800+lb. |access-date=2018-03-18}}</ref> and weigh around {{cvt|450|kg}} [[captive animal|in captivity]].<ref name="Wood1983" /><ref name="LSPC1941">{{Cite news |year=1941 |title=The Nineteenth Century and After |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylEQAAAAIAAJ&q=Samson,+1,000-pound+African |access-date=2018-03-17 |publisher=Leonard Scott Publishing Company |volume=130}}</ref>

The [[liger]], a [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] of a lion and tiger, can grow to be much larger than its parent species. In particular, a liger called 'Nook' is reported to have weighed over {{cvt|550|kg}}.<ref name="LigerFacts">{{Cite web |title=The Liger - Meet the World's Largest Cat |url=http://ligerfacts.org/ |access-date=2016-07-17 |website=Liger Facts}}</ref><ref name="LigerWorldNook">{{Cite web |title=Liger Nook - Liger Profile |url=http://www.ligerworld.com/nook-the-liger.html |access-date=2018-04-23 |website=Liger World}}</ref>