Amur Tigers

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(02-07-2019, 06:06 PM)peter Wrote:

(02-07-2019, 10:39 AM)Rishi Wrote:

(02-06-2019, 06:06 PM)Lycaon Wrote: massive amur 

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@peter This male sure looks capable of hitting 250kg easily. 
Given how most of the animals caught/weighed in India recently were sub-adult or sick or starving, could that be what's happening in Russia? 

Could it be that the weight of wild Amur tigers is being misrecorded, as prime specimens like this are simply not beiing weighed?

Nice photograph, Lycaon. I like the markings above his eyes.

Judging weight from a photograph is all but impossible, Rishi. Most healthy adult male tigers in the Russian Far East seem big, especially in winter. What is needed, is reliable information collected by researchers. This is a problem, because it isn't easy to carry the equipment needed to wild places. In most of Sichote-Alin, hills are everywhere.

I'm preparing a few posts on the size of wild Amur tigers. Takes a lot of time.

This quote is from Mammals of the Soviet Union, Volume II, Part 2.

"Thanks to fat reserves constituting 20% of overall body weight, tigers which have eaten nothing for even five to ten days remain content."

I have no idea was that percentage concerning wintertime or summertime. Maybe someone have more information about body fat levels of Siberian tigers and how does it variate during year or does it. I would assume, that it is somewhat bigger when winter. Reply