Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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Tiger is back home
On October 30, Primorsky Province Hunting Department with the support of the Amur Tiger Center and WWF released an adult Amur tiger back into the wild with a fitted radio collar.

Early in the morning of October 30, a tiger caught and placed in the rehab center four days previously*, was sedated, put into a transportation cage, and three hours later released in the Tigrovoye Hunting Lease on the border with Ussuriisky Nature Reserve.

“The decision on the place of the tiger release was made jointly by nature conservation organizations. To choose this place correctly, several factors were considered like the availability of enough wild ungulates to feed on, the farness from the human settlements, and the lack of people on the moment of its release. So, we have picked the Tigrovoye Hunting Lease as a place for the tiger release. We are keen to know whether the tiger will try to come back to its former site or will choose a new one,” comments Pavel Fomenko, head of rare species conservation program at WWF Russia Amur branch.

Translocation technique is widely used in the world when dealing with conflict wild animals. A tiger home range also witnessed a number of translocations when tigers successfully settled down in new territories  

Timely resolution of conflicts is a guarantee of a peaceful coexistence of tigers and humans. At the moment, in Primorsky and Khabarovsky Provinces an effective system of mitigating conflicts between large predators and humans is being developed.

Sedating and transportation procedures were supervised by the professional veterinaries of the Primorskaya State Agriculture Academy.

For four days the tiger was kept in the enclosure in the Rehab center near the village of Alekseevka (Primorsky Province).

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“Data received from GPS collar on 31 October confirmed that the tiger has moved 5 kilometers up north from the point of release, in an opposite direction, away from the densely populated territories, such as Artyom and Vladivostok cities. It means that he successfully recovered sedation, with no harm to his health”,comments Alexey Kostyria, senior coordinator of rare species conservation program at WWF Russia Amur branch.

*On 26 October, 2016 the police received information from a citizen of Artyom city, who found a cow killed by a tiger. A group on solving human-large predator conflicts of the Primorsky Province Hunting Department, experts of WWF and the Amur Tiger Center immediately came to the site to find the remains of a cow. Footprints left in the soil proved that the cow was attacked by an adult Amur tiger.

In the evening on October 26, the conflict group detected the tiger with an infra-red camera when he was coming back to his prey. The male was safely captured and placed to the rehabilitation center in Alekseevka village.

The examination and analyses showed that this is a healthy 4-5 years old Amur tiger male weighing more than 170 kg. 


I wonder what the real weight of this male is.


Source: 

http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/eng/14652

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