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

[GuateGojira]

I am agree with @peter, I think that many people is underestimating the size of the Indian tigers. Most of the time we see figures of "about 227 kg" mentioned in literature and webpages, which is not correct, as many males are surpassing the 230 kg. New males has been captured, with no need of baits and no stomach content, and they are reaching the figures of the old hunting records.

Finally, many of the scales used are old or damaged, so they can't get the real weight of the animals, which normally bottomed the capacities.

I think they should use digital scales like that of the Russian scientists, or large ones of up to 300 kg, like the one used by Dr Smuts in Kruger.

For the moment, we have now about 20 male tigers weighed in modern days, so our sample is larger every day. Just a little correction, the scale used by Dr Chundawat was of c. 250 kg (550 lb), so that was the figure that bottomed the male tiger "Madla".

I hope to join my data with that of @tigerluver and @Kingtheropod (and other too...) soon, in order to publish the first "Wildfacts - Table", created by the effort of all the posters. Reply