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

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(03-11-2020, 09:45 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: For mainland Bengal tigers, barring the smaller ones in the Sundarbans, the calculated average is 210 kg (461.97 lbs), alright, but I'm surprised that if you take the Sundarban tiger into account, then the average for the male Bengal tiger (200 kg or 440.95 lbs) becomes slightly lower than that of the male Siberian tiger (203 kg or 447.54 lbs), because previously in 2015, when you calculated the average for male mainland Bengal tigers to be 208 kg (458.56 lbs), even with frail male Sundarban tigers weighing only 126 kg (277.78 lbs), the overall average for the male Bengal tiger (196 kg or 423.11 lbs) was still higher than that of the male Amur tiger (190.0 kg or 418.88 lbs), even if slightly, so how did the Siberian tiger come on top this time?

Very good question and the answer is simple, in that image I included the historical with the modern records together, just like I have done with the Bengal tigers. This figure was used many times even in the old comparative images of 2015 and there is a full explanation in this link, post 341: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-modern-...rs?page=23

"About the Amur tigers, we have less information, however, with the few old and verified old records and the modern scientific records we can present figures of 216.5 kg (n=10, range: 164 - 254 kg) for males in old records and 190 kg (n=23, range: 155- 212 kg) for the modern ones. The overall average using all the weights will be of 203 kg for the entire subspecies/population."

So, the figure of 203 kg is for both historic and modern records. I wanted to create also a comparative image using only the modern scientific records but it resulted that it lacks so many data that don't worth the effort, so I just leave it like a table and here are the tables that I made since the last year, using only modern scientific records:

*This image is copyright of its original author

*This image is copyright of its original author

Please note that in this table I use the figure of 261 kg which is just a chest girth calculation, while in the comparative image I now use the figure of 272 kg as maximum as that is the real figure for males M105 (Sauraha) and M126.

Hope this helps. Reply