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

[tigerluver]

Regression is an estimate which in this case could have been +/- 20 kg off based on the r^2 was the point I was making. Your conclusions make total sense, I was just talking about it literally.

Not much to present on these two males, but I'll try me best. They were living at the same time from what I understand, somewhere around 1998. They were called Island and Nuna Bhale. Nuna Bhale is mentioned here in an old state, interestingly, and unfortunately, a man-eater, leading to his disposition by killing. Nuna is mentioned here in this 2006 document:
https://www.panthera.org/sites/default/f...-014.2.pdf

Judging by his condition, Nuna may have been a 300 kg male in his prime, we'll never know. He's also momentarily mentioned as the largest of the Chitwan specimens alongside M105 in Tigers of the World: The Science, Politics and Conservation of Panthera tigris. There's no publication mention of Island Bhale, albeit.

A trend I've noticed is that rarely are recent masses from Nepal to India published anymore. I wonder many specimens have been measured but we've no publication.

This male, who's no longer alive, may have well been one of 270+ kg descendants of Nuna or Island Bhale, Eastern Bhale:

At least in modern Chitwan, it probably isn't an overstatement to say your average dominant male hovers around 270 kg. The tigers of this area seem to have up-sized through the century. Now the question is, how do the Chitwan specimens compare to the rest of the form? Reply