(02-24-2019, 07:31 PM)Rishi Wrote:

(10-31-2018, 10:18 AM)Suhail Wrote:

Chanda to Betul, Maharashtra to MP: Tiger's 350 km journey longest in country.

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The tiger from Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station that migrated to neighbouring MP only to end up in Satpura Power Station in Sarni, got his freedom this month.

The 2.5-year-old tiger was released into the wild in Bori Wildlife Sanctuary (518sqkm) part of the Satpura Tiger Reserve (1,500 sqkm core and 700 sqkm buffer), that he so narrowly missed after such a record-breaking journey. The area is a good habitat, as all villages here have been relocated. Grasslands have added to a good prey base too.

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Due to the bad habit caused by his "upbringing" he had to be retrained to life in the wild & was shifted to a specialised 6hc. enclosure at Kanha (that had raised other orphan tigers) after 10 days of cat'nmouse...
Considering its history (killed two people), it was to be released in Van Vihar, Bhopal, for display but forest officials gave a second thought because he was young & carried Maharastra genes.

“We released live chitals into the enclosure and, during the 50-odd days, the tiger killed over 7. After a go-ahead from experts, it was radio-collared and released on 1st February", said SK Singh, field director of Satpura. 

So far so good.

Sources:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/67841176.cms?
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/feb/10/relocating-straying-tiger-safely-into-the-wild-in-mp-1936851.html

(02-12-2019, 05:09 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(01-14-2019, 10:28 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: Body Mass of Bengal tiger in Modern Records: Revised (2019)

Hello everyone, I have decided to make a new revision of the body mass of Bengal tiger in modern records. This list included the weights of 30 male tigers, with a few others not included. The average body weight is 492 lbs (223 kg).

Note: Sundarbans tigers not included.

Chitwan NP, Nepal:
Average 221 kg adjusted. n=7. Range 184-261 kg. Reference: Smith et al., 1983; Sunquist, 1981. These tigers originally averaged 235 kg but they consumed on average 14 kg of meat

Chitwan NP, Nepal:
270+ kg. n=1. Reference: Dinerstein, E. (2003). This animal (M026) exceeded the scale of 270 kg along with Sauraha male (M105). This animals weight of 270 kg's is included.

Nagarahole NP:

Average 217 kg adjusted. n=3. Range 209-227 kg. Reference: Karanth, 1993.

Panna TR
Average 245 kg. n=2. Range 240-250 kg. Reference. Chundawat & Malik, 2010; Pers Comm. 2009. Note: Both these tigers exceeded a scale of 250 kg, but was estimated to weigh about these measurements, M-91's weight was adjusted down due to 10 kg of weighing equipment. The other tiger was Madla who's weight is given as 250 kg.

Panna TR
240 kg. n=1. Reference: Noronha, 2015. Tiger known as "T-3", age 10 years old. Tiger was reintroduced to Panna TR. This was a statement from former field director, Panna tiger reserve, R Sriniwas Murthy. This same tiger was also weighed previously at the age of 60 months at 200 kg.

Panna TR
211.5 kg. n=2. Range 205-218 kg. Reference: Roamin; Pers. Comm. 2016. Two tigers, one known as P212 weighed 190 kg at 4.5 years old, this same animal was stated to have weighed 205 kg's during the winter months. Another unknown male was stated to have weighed 218 kg.  


Sariska TR, India
220 kg. n=1. Reference: Sinha , 2008. This tiger was a young male, said to be three and a half years old. This tiger was also recaptured and estimated to weigh 250 kg when it was older

Kanha NP, India
197 kg. n=1. Reference: 21st Century Tiger, 2014

Kanha NP, India
225+ kg. n=2. Reference: Sinha; Pers. Comm. 2016 & Minha Ha; Pers. Comm. 2016. Tigers named Banda and Konda both exceeded a scale of 225 kg. These tigers where weighed back in October and February of 2007. These animals weights that exceeded scale are included in the final average.

Kanha NP, India
225 kg. n=1. Reference: Vats, 2016. This tiger is the sub adult male named Bheema. He weighed 225 kg at the age of 2.5 years old. He was later estimated to weigh greater then 280 kg's as an adult. This animal is not included in the final average.

Uttar Pradesh's South Kheri forest
235 kg. n=1. Reference: Singh, 2016. This is the Kheri man-eater transferred to Lucknow Zoo. Animal said to be 4 years old. Treated by Dr. Mayukh Chatterjee

Dudhwa NP, India
210 kg. n=1. Reference: Ahsan; Pers. Comm. 2016. This was a 4 year old problematic male tiger that strayed out of Dudhwa NP.


Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve
185 kg. n=1. Reference: Habib; Pers. Comm. 2015. Tiger named Gabbar, 8 year old male

Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve
197 kg. n=1. Reference: Dhanwatey, 2015. This tiger was a 4 year old problem animal which attacked a farmer and his cattle. This animal had received injuries to its paws and nose, aswell as broken canines. This animal was featured in animal planet series 'Living with Maneaters'.


Ranthambore NP, India
240 kg. n=1. Reference: Khandal; Pers. Comm. 2015. Tiger known as "T-24", This tiger was actually weighed in 2009.

Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary in Nagpur, India
230 kg. n=1. Reference: Karoo; Pers. Comm. 2015. Tiger named Jai. This tiger was stated to weigh between 220 and 238 kg, the weighing scale used had a 18 kg margin of error. This same tiger was also stated to have been weighed a second time, one authority claiming 240 kg's and another stating 215 kg's.

Pilibhit TR
172.45 kg. n=1. Reference: Ghosal, 2018. Tiger named "Fateh" estimated to be 3-4 years old. This tiger was captured and later transferred to Kanpur Zoo where he will stay the rest of his life.

Pilibhit TR
345 kg. n=1. Reference: Jamshed; Pers. Comm. 2018. Tiger was stated to be 7 years old. 

Lalgarh Forest
220 kg. n=1. Reference: Khanra & Mukherjee, 2018. Tiger was killed in lalgarh forest, estimated to be 10-12 years old. A post-mortem investigation concluded that the tiger was killed by tribal hunters armed with spears. 

Zhemgang, Bhutan
170 kg. n=1. Reference: Tenzin, 2018. A team at global tiger centre (GTC) has trapped and collared a tiger estimated to be 6-7 years old. Tiger was a cattle killer that killed 18 cows in the span of a year.

Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary in Nagpur, India
230 kg. n=2. Reference: Deshpande, 2017. These two tigers are the sons of tiger (Jai) mentioned above. Both of them weighed 230 kg during their second collaring at the age of 32 months old. The tigers names are Bittu and Srinivas (T-9 and T-10 respectively). Collaring was performed by Dr. Bilal Habib. These two are not included in the final average.

Pench NP, India
225 kg. n=1. Reference: Minha Ha; Pers. Comm. 2016. This tiger is the son of BMW of pench said to be 2.5 years old which died due to poisoning in January of 2016. This animal is not included.


Pench NP, India
200+ kg. n=1. Reference: Majumder, 2012. This tiger exceeded a scale of 200 kg, weight was estimated to be upto 220 kg. Not included in final average.

The average comes to 223 kg's (492 lb), n=30

Good information, I appreciate your updates.

Just like a side note, the table that I made, using only the 21 males from scientific documents and corroborated news reports, I got an average of 220 kg (range= 184 - 261 kg), which is a diference of only 3 kg. For females, I have an average of 137 kg (n=29, range=106 - 177 kg).

That means that even excludind 9 males, the change is not as dramatic as we can think.

Just one question, did you include the male of 345 kg from Pilibhit?

(06-25-2019, 04:23 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: The table in the original document of 1983 says "7 males", but Waveriders suggested that probably that is the number of captures, not the specimens. I asked this to Dr Sunquist and Dr Smith, but for the moment I have no answer.

Even then, we actually know 4 males captures (M102 - 200 kg, M105 - 272+ kg, M126 - 272+ kg & "Bange Bhale" - 204 kg) , which only two are included in the table of the document of 1983 (M102 and M105). So if we belive in the estimation of Waveriders, probably only 3-4 males were captured in Nepal and adding the other two reported after the document was published, the number of males could be about 5-6 specimens. 

Also, as far I remember tigerluver mentioned that other two males were reported to weight 272+ kg that, apparently are not included in the table, making the sample between 7-8 males.

At the end, if they are actually "7 captures" and not "7 males", and if we included the other two males captured latter, we got an average figure of 227 kg "empty belly", using the adjusted weights in this form: M102 - 184 kg, M105 - 261 kg, M126 - 260 kg & "Bange Bhale" - 204 kg. The last one was not adjusted because it was not baited, according with Mishra (2010).

(06-26-2019, 11:31 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: @GuateGojira

My assumption was that these 26 tigers weighed, and the other 49 tigers mentioned in the other table are referring to different years. The 26 tigers represent one study period, and the other 49 tigers was a different research occasion when they got scales greater then 227 kg.


The 26 tigers they refer to in the paper is the tigers they weighed WHEN they only had a max 227 kg scale. The 49 tigers mentioned is when they got the 272 kg scales.

Keep note, that the subadult tigers mentioned in Sunquist et al 1981 and Smith et al 1983 may have become adults on their second immobilization, thus they would be included as adults on their second weighing.


I would like to mention another important thing Guate

Eric Dinerstein in his book below mentions a tiger of 560 lbs from Baghmara forest. I think this is another male!

https://books.google.ca/books?id=qYGKNKp...&q&f=false

(10-01-2019, 12:47 PM)Kingtheropod Wrote: T-91 reached Mukandra; Had to hit 2 dots to make him unconscious, scare reached in 4 hours, buzzing roar in reserve 2 hours after opening the cage

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The T-91 landed at a quarter of an hour after opening the cage in Dara Enclosure.

Tiger came out of Ranthambore from Bundi jungles from 19 November

City Reporter | quota

After a long wait of 5 years, the tiger roared in Hadoti's Mukandra Hills Tiger Reserve. Tuesday brought a big gift for Hadoti. After several days of efforts, the forest department has shifted from Ranthambore since November 19 to the tiger T-91, which is roaming in Ramgarh Century of Bundi, in Mukandra. T-91 tiger was tranquilized at 6:12 am in Bandra Pol forest area of Ramgarh Century. He had to hit two dots to make him unconscious. After the health checkup, Tiger was sent to Mukandra at 8:15 am under the supervision of senior officials. Blood sample of tiger, heart beep, weight, length taken. He was sent from there on the green signal of Dr. Rajiv Garg. The route from Ramgarh Century to Mukandra was completely sealed by the police. He was accompanied by a convoy of police escort vehicles and forest department officers all the time. The convoy traveled 165 km from Ramgarh Century to Mukandra. The tiger entered the Dara Ranger block at Mukandra at 12:08 pm. He was then transported to a 28-hectare covered enclosure built 6 kilometers inside the Ghati Mata Mandir hill.

The nephew of Broken Tale is: Tiger's convoy reached village Dara from Motipura, Khatkhar, Bundi, Talera, Ballop, Hanging Bridge, Kathun, Kanwas. After opening the cage in the enclosure, Tiger flew down from the canter at around 2:15 pm. T-91 is the nephew of Broken Tale. Its father is the son of Bahadur and Broken Tail Fish. It is worth noting that Broken Tale came to Selzer in the year 2003. The same year he died after hitting the train at Dara. (Also read quota front page)

Confirmed at night, tiger will be tranquilized by morning

Shifting to CMO monitoring

NTCA temporary ban disrupted shifting. However, immediate shifting was necessary given the tiger's safety. In the monitoring of the CMO, the forest department took action to tranquilize the tiger for the last one week. The CMO was also closely monitored for carrying the tiger from Ramgarh to Mukandra.

Both people and forest benefit from tiger

Congratulations to the people of Hadauti region on successful trans location in Mukandra Reserve of Tiger T-91. Both the people and the forest will benefit from the arrival of the tiger. The people of Hadoti are also responsible for the protection and conservation of this ecosystem.

-Sundhara Raje, Chief Minister

On Monday night, T-91 came into open space while walking in Bandra Pol forest area. Then it was confirmed that the tiger would be tranquilized by morning. At 6:12 am, a team tranquilized him. He ran in the bushes for 100 meters. After some time he was brought out of the stretcher into the open. Health checkup done. DCF Dr. T Mohanraj said the weight of the tiger was 280 kg. Inserted radio collar from Germany. In view of the temperature and heat of the body, ice was placed in the cage by drizzling.


- YK Sahu, Field Director, Ranthambore Tiger Reserve

Bhaskar Inside Story

After 3 hours I came to my senses and left for Darra

Quota | The task of transporting the Tiger T-91 from Ramgarh to Dara was nothing less than a "surgical strike". Just read the Inside Story of Shifting in Bhaskar, by the life of Rajiv Garg, the wild life doctor of Ranthambore Reserve, who tranquilized the tiger.

5:21 pm Mara Dot: This is the tiger of the royal mood. I know its nature very well. It can only be caught in the dark, it is not visible in the light. The first dot hit Bandra Pol at 5:21 am.

Departure from Ramgarh at 8:15 am: When he regained consciousness at 8:15 he left for Dara. They left with the whole squad. The speed of the canter remained very low till it came out of the forest and came to the main road, then after coming on the highway, it caught pace and kept going. There was a cavalcade of vehicles back and forth.

First step placed in Dara's enclosure at 2:15

After traveling 165 km, he made a canter at the bottom of the hill at Ghati Mata Temple in Dara at 12:08 am. After seeing the surrounding situation, we all boarded the trains and opened the cage door in the canter. But Tiger never landed from the cage. We had no choice but to sit and watch. At around 2:15, as soon as Tiger took the first step on the land of Dara, there was no place for our happiness.

6:12 pm hit the second dot: the place where it was, there was a drain just behind it. The problem could have occurred if it had moved towards the drain after the dot was applied. At 6:12 am, the second dot was unconscious when it appeared again.

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(10-01-2019, 12:56 PM)Hello Wrote: I don't believe what report says 280 kg.He is not even close to that,maybe 180 kg is realistic