For Waverider

[Pckts]

" This is a good example of an animal been measured "along the curves", but again, the tape is not been pressed in all points, is hold fairly straight, the animal is not unnaturally stretched and like I say before, this method had many variations, different tools and people, and can't be classified as a single, simple and normally used method.

This is not showed in the draws of books, and depends of the person making the measurements. Individual pictures or personal testimonies are very important in this cases. "

Bingo!

Thats the whole point, @WaveRiders tries to discredit a measurement for tigers like he some how has an idea about how each and every big cat was measured. The variations in this process, whether from an individual or just procedural, are always going to be slightly different. Trying to interpret one from another is already near impossible, trying to discredit a specific biologist or method used is pointless. Unless you're on site for ever cat measured there will always be variation with in a method. I assume there would be variation with in a method even when its done by the same person, no 2 situations are ever the same. They work fast, only have so many resources at their disposal and each situation can be completely different from another.


Its the same with his "gorged" argument, it's purely subjective and without base. There is no common "measuring system" to determine how much food the animal had consumed prior, there are visual cues but that seldom tells the whole story and each animal will have eaten a different amount depending on their weight. From what I have seen, a good base for big cats is remove 5% of their body weight, that seems to be a good number if you're so concerned with whether a cat is "gorged or not" but if you're going to do this, you do it with all of them. Trying to pick and choose which cats and how much is purely guess work.


I am curious, how many big cats have been captured multiple times?
How many of them have been captured multiple times by different people?
What were the differences between capture date and body measurements?
What were the differences in the big cat that was captured by different people?



It truly seems like he's so desperate to close the gap that is only a few inches and KGs, I just don't get it. What does it matter at this point, the overlap between them is quite a common occurrence. Reply