ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(05-11-2015, 05:45 AM)'peter' Wrote:  As for the answer to your questions. I'm afraid the length of both posts (as well as the lack of a clear conclusion) says quite a lot.
 

In fact, I decided not to put a "conclusion" because I wanted to know the opinion of the posters first, in base of the evidence. The length of both posts is important, because I wanted to show the entire panorama in order to create a clear overview of the situation. Making a smaller post will be counterproductive, from my point of view.

Now, if a conclusion from my part is needed, I can add them right now, as I am convinced of the results:

1. The tigress Sundari (T-02) was weighed several times, and now we know two of those weights. I am convinced that she weighed 145 kg empty, but as the source from were we had all the other measurements quote 177 kg (Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002), that is the figure that we most use.

2. The total body length quoted by Dr Karanth are obviously quoted from Mazák (1981), that is pretty clear for me, and the sources that he quote are only used to hide this fact. The method that Dr Karanth used to measure his tigers is the "straight line", as his description don't provide any evidence that he followed the curves like the old hunters.

3. Accuracy are important for us and our future documents, however, for the moment and for "popular" purposes like for example Wikipedia, the figures of Dr Karanth in the documents of 2003 and 2013 CAN and most be used, after all, they are not quite different that those that I have showed and at the end, the weight figures are more accurate than those from Mazák (1981).

I can expand myself much more on this, but I think that a short direct conclusion is what you wanted here.
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