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Check that the document don't mention anything about measurements. Warsaw only quote this document because of the picture, specially by the fact that the tape seems loose in the back of the tigress. HOWEVER, the problem with Warsaw statements is that no photograph show the act of measuring, what we see here is Nikolai placing the tape over the back before the tape been stretched over the back. If Linda Kerley and all her team wrote that the tigers were measured in straight line, following the protocols established by Nowell & Jackson (1996), of course that I will believe in them.
Warsaw is just trashing the tiger, like always, so I suggest to you to ignore him, he is not important.