Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[LonePredator]

(04-28-2022, 11:09 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-28-2022, 10:50 PM)LonePredator Wrote: True. It doesn’t look particuly big. I never knew a picture of this Tiger existed. For the 389kg weight of the Tiger to be considered, it should be at least 225cm in head-body and it doesn’t look like it. 

Anyways, which are the heaviest and longest Tigers and Lions which you know about?

Correct, the last time Dr Per Christiansen (unpublish data) says that the Ngandong tiger (biggest specimen) probably weighed 380 kg, and that is a real giant, with a femur of 48 cm and an estimated head-body between 230-240 cm "straight". This can show us how big needs to be a tiger to reach that body mass.

Tigers of c.220 cm like the one of Brander, the Amur tiger reported by Mazak and the giant tiger of Colonel Ramsay, are candidates for weighing 285-300 kg empty, depending of how you adjuts them. I think that is the highest figure for any living felid, above that are just the gigantic (and often fat) captive specimens.

Largest tiger "between pegs" on record is the one from Brander (221 cm head-body - 302.3 cm total length, weight estimated at c.600 lb); the heaviest "exceptional"  tiger is the one of the Maharaha of Nepal (320 kg, about 290 kg "empty"), heaviest normal tiger 260 kg "empty".

Largest lion "between pegs" on record is the one from Kirby (218 cm head-body - 307.4 cm total length, weight estimated at c.500 lb); the heaviest "exceptional" lion is one of Kenya and another of Kruger (272 kg each), heaviest normal lion 250 kg "empty".

Indeed...

Wasn’t Sauraha male’s weight actually estimated from a chest-girth equation? I don’t remember very well but I think some specimen’s weight was determined like this.

Anyway, I think I actually saw one of your graphic about these largest Tigers and Lions. Sorry I forgot about it but after seeing this I remembered that I have seen these weights.

I’m sure there must’ve been more 300kg specimens but not many were weighed and there were also many fake weights floating around which certainly made people more sceptical about these weights and rightly so.

Plus the weights of North Indian Tigers are so few in historical records. All we have are lengths and that too total lengths. Only if we had more historical weights from Northern India. Reply