text: A 12-year-old jaguar is being sent back from New Delhi zoo after he was found “too fat to breed,” zoo officials said, adding that he just “lies in a corner and refuses to respond” to females enticing him. 
   
   Salman the jaguar was brought from the Thiruvananthapuram Zoological Garden in Kerala, southern India in October 2014. In the year that has passed since he has shown “complete disinterest” in females, Delhi zoo officials told the Indian Express. 
   
   In fact he “reached out for its meals more keenly” than for the passionate embrace of Kalpana, his female would-be partner, Delhi zoo curator Riaz Khan said. 
   
   “He was brought on a breeding loan but it has been over a year and Salman has shown no interest in mating. In fact, the female is seen trying to entice him but he lies in a corner and refuses to respond. He is too fat to breed.” 
   
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   Now the Zoo officials have given up hope that the jaguar will ever get interested in Kalpana. Jaguars have no breeding season and can mate at any time, but Salman seems to be ignoring the calls of mother nature, zoo staff said. 
   
   “He is lazy, a glutton, just loves to eat and relax. Every morning, we find leftovers in the cages of the other jaguars but this one polishes off his entire food. I am sure if we gave him more food, he would finish off that too. He has a bigger appetite than the tigers here,” said one of Salman’s keepers. 
   
   Tigers are usually much bigger than jaguars. While the weight of a Bengal tiger can vary from 180kg to 258kg, a jaguar’s normal weight is considered to be in the 56-96kg range. 
   
   Jaguar Salman to be Sent Back to Kerala as he is 'Too Fat to Breed' http://t.co/1Csj3Ifuxapic.twitter.com/vNv5X4aGkS — New Indian Express (@NewIndianXpress) October 10, 2015 
   
   According to the zoo, the approximate weight of the lazy jaguar who doesn’t want to cope with his sexual responsibilities is more than 100kg. 
   
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   The zoo officials tried to fight the jaguar’s love for food – they put him on a strict diet and released it into the larger enclosure, so that the animal would get more exercise. 
   
   Delhi zoo to return jaguar named Salman from Kerala because it is ‘too fat to breed’ http://t.co/XJuFDqIxpApic.twitter.com/BVianfpJEQ — TheNewsMinute (@thenewsminute) October 10, 2015 
   
   However, all attempts failed – he wouldn't abandon his two favourite sins, gluttony and sloth, for that of lust. He still “would stroll for a bit, then lie in a corner,” according to the keeper. 
   
   “So it is best that we send him back home… if he is not fulfilling that purpose then what is the point in keeping him here?” Khan said. ||||| Image copyright AFP Image caption This jaguar in Hyderabad does not appear to suffer from Salman's "gluttony" (file photo) 
   
   A jaguar on a breeding loan to Delhi zoo in India is being sent back as he is too fat to mate, keepers say. 
   
   Twelve-year-old Salman was borrowed from a zoo in Kerala a year ago, but has shown little interest in their female jaguar, Kalpana, the Indian Express reports. 
   
   Keepers say he reaches out for his meals "more keenly than for Kalpana". 
   
   "The female is seen trying to entice him but he lies in a corner and refuses to respond," Riaz Khan told the paper. 
   
   The Delhi zoo says it feeds its jaguars 6kg of buffalo meat a day in the summer, six days a week. 
   
   Salman eats more than a tiger, keepers claimed, and efforts to reduce his weight with a strict diet were unsuccessful. 
   
   Image copyright AFP Image caption The jaguar is found in the wild in the Americas (file photo) 
   
   "He is lazy, a glutton, just loves to eat and relax," they said. 
   
   Releasing him into the larger enclosure did not prompt him to take exercise or trigger an interest in mating. 
   
   However, the portly big cat's supporters at the zoo point out that Delhi's two male jaguars have also failed to provide Kalpana with offspring - and say that it may be the trauma of the relocation that caused his lethargy. 
   
   Salman is not the only big cat in an Indian zoo whose lack of mating interest has drawn criticism. 
   
   Earlier this year experts at Alipore zoo in Kolkata said Vishal, a white tiger, had spurned the advances of a tigress - despite being de-wormed and given libido-enhancing vitamins. 
   
   Jaguars are native to the Americas and are listed as "near threatened" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list. ||||| Lazy, obese and now lonely, Salman on Thursday. Amit Mehra 
   
   Obesity has been identified as a life-threatening condition among human beings. But as officials in the Delhi zoo have realised over the last year, it can stall life in the animal kingdom too. That’s why they are returning Salman, a 12-year-old jaguar, to Kerala with this stinging verdict: “he’s too fat to breed”. 
   
   Salman was borrowed on a “breeding loan” from the Thiruvananthapuram Zoological Garden last October, but has since shown “complete disinterest” in pairing up with the lone female jaguar in the National Zoological Park here, say Delhi zoo officials. They say Salman has “reached out for its meals more keenly than for Kalpana”, the female jaguar. 
   
   “He was brought on a breeding loan but it has been over a year and Salman has shown no interest in mating. In fact, the female is seen trying to entice him but he lies in a corner and refuses to respond. He is too fat to breed,” Delhi zoo curator Riaz Khan told The Indian Express. 
   
   “Now we know for sure nothing is going to happen. So it is best that we send him back home. He was brought for a purpose and if he is not fulfilling that purpose then what is the point in keeping him here?” Khan said. 
   
   Although no scientific tests have been done to establish the case against Salman, some zoo officials are inclined to take his side, arguing that the two other male jaguars, Mohan and Shankar, have also failed to give Kalpana a cub. 
   
   “It’s not necessarily about obesity. In some cases, animals that are proven breeders stop after relocation,” said a wildlife expert at the Delhi zoo, who did not wish to be named. 
   
   But the counter-argument from Khan and the others is that unlike the other two, Salman has not even shown any interest in mating after reaching Delhi on October 20, 2014. “He is lazy, a glutton, just loves to eat and relax,” said one of Salman’s caretakers. 
   
   “Every morning, we find leftovers in the cages of the other jaguars but this one polishes off his entire food. I am sure if we gave him more food, he would finish off that too. He has a bigger appetite than the tigers here,” he said. 
   
   All the four jaguars in Delhi’s zoo are given approximately 6 kg of buffalo meat daily, and for a while zoo staff tried their best to win this battle of the bulge. 
   
   “Salman was put on a strict diet but showed no signs of losing weight and had to be brought back to the usual ration,” said the caretaker. They also tried releasing him into the larger enclosure more often, hoping he would play around and get some exercise. “But he would stroll for a bit, then lie in a corner,” the caretaker said. 
   
   Salman’s weight has not been officially measured yet, but at the time of relocation, the Thiruvananthapuram zoo had certified that he was “fit”. 
   
   Last month, officials from the Thiruvananthapuram zoo offered to take Salman back with them when they were in Delhi to accept a white tiger as part of another programme. But the Delhi zoo decided to hold him back till the one-year loan period ends — “hoping against hope”. 
   
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target: – A jaguar is being sent home to Kerala, India, from a New Delhi breeding program after being accused of having a dad bod without the "dad" part. Salman had been borrowed by the Delhi Zoo to mate with Kalpana, its female jaguar, but there were problems: Salman turned out to be too corpulent and lethargic to mate, the BBC reports. Salman has "reached out for its meals more keenly than for Kalpana," a zookeeper complains to the Indian Express, adding that "the female is seen trying to entice him but he lies in a corner and refuses to respond. He is too fat to breed." Salman, who RT.com notes is said to weigh around 220 pounds, does have his defenders, who point out to the Express that two other male jaguars also didn't produce offspring with Kalpana and that breeding cats sometimes just don't feel like mating after being relocated. But workers at the zoo say Salman is a different animal altogether than the previous competition. "He is lazy, a glutton, just loves to eat and relax," one of the caretakers tells the paper. (Maybe Vin Diesel needs to have a heart-to-heart with Salman.)