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(04-18-2020, 11:35 AM)Pckts Wrote: That's essentially a combination of the longest and tallest Tigers in history compared to Gaur we can estimate of around 1100kg based off a combination of horn spread/weight and body dimensions from the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.
But unfortunately we dont know what those body dimensions actually convert to in body weight so it's a bit of a mish mosh all around. Still very much appreciated though.
Something to note, you posted the largest Kanha bull said to have been killed with a horn spread of 24", this bull above will have a spread of 12" more than that one.
Now I'm not sure the correlation of spread to weight but it's definitely something to keep in mind when thinking about how large a 1000kg Gaur would be.
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I don't think that "mish mosh" will be the correct description. As you know, normally there is not a "biggest" specimen overall, somethimes the longest is not the tallest, or the heaviest. In the case of the tiger, yes the height was of other tiger, but if we use the height of the largest tiger of Brander this was of 109 cm, just 5 cm of diference from the tallest one overall, so the comparative image match perfectly. Now, on the gaur side, the biggest dimentions are of the same animal, so we are lucky of have such a big specimen. Sadly the Maharaha did not weighed his gaurs/buffaloes/rhinos.
On the horn length, it is interesting to see that Schaller quotes Rowland Ward for the biggest horn length and is of 31.5 inches, but the record gaur (in weight) had a larger horns length and there are other even larger! Where they measured in diferent form? I don't know. However, I don't think that there is a correlation between weight and horns now, because the biggest horn length for gaur that I have, which is of 37 in (94 cm), had a weight of "only" 1530 lb (694 kg). Other bull with a horn length of 36 in (91.4 cm) weighed 1700 lb (771 kg).
Maximum size of prey that a single male lion or tiger can kill
