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12-03-2016, 08:36 PM( This post was last modified: 12-03-2016, 10:27 PM by sanjay )
(12-03-2016, 05:17 PM)Apollo Wrote: Good work guys.
Keep it up.
Based on the studies "Home Range of the Radio-collared Bengal Tigers in Pench Tiger Reserve", three tigers were radio collared (one adult female, one adult male and a subadult male). During the period March 2008 to December 2011.
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All three tigers were weighed and measured. The adult male was estimated in at 200-220Kg and was administered 3ml sedative, but it was not enough to bring the male down so they again sedated the male with another 1.2ml sedative, which is 40% more sedative than actually required for a (200-220Kg) male. So this could been the adult male was possibly heavier than their estimated weight. Unfortunately I guess there weighing scale was not big enough to see this males full potential and hence they reported the weight to be greater than 200Kg.
The T15 adult female is none other than Collarwali tigress.
She was born in October 2005 and was radiocollared on March 2008 (2 years 5 months).
So when collarwali was weighed at 145kg she is just a 2 years and 5 months old subadult and not an adult tiger as the document states.