Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[Rishi]

(02-24-2017, 11:46 PM)Apollo Wrote:

(02-24-2017, 11:05 AM)Rishi Wrote:

(02-24-2017, 10:03 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: This "wild" tiger was a descendant of a captive cat. However, he was still a wild animal technically.

Tiger Canyon - Seatao weighed 229 kg.

Hello Friends 

On the 22nd of June 2016, the male tiger Seatao was found dead in the bush at Tiger Canyons. There were no visible injuries on Seatao and no signs of a fight. It appears that Seatao died of natural causes, he was 10 years old. 

Seatao came to me as a 3 weeks old cub. The breeder who bred Seatao, never told me that he was a carrier of the rare white gene. (Seatao’s father was a white tiger and his mother was a normal tigress.)

Seatao came with a female cub called Shadow (DNA profiling later proved Seatao and Shadow were not related.) 

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Five years later Ron was killed in a territorial fight. Seatao found the body an

I remember vividly when attempting to weigh Seatao, it took 12 strong men to get him onto the scale. Seatao tipped the scale at 229 kg.

Seatao readily jumped onto the bonnet of the Mahindra vehicles. One could physically feel the vehicle sag under Seatao’s weight...

I dont understand one thing... If he tipped the <230kg scale at 229, can his weight assumed to be the same??!?!!!   
Because saw the video of that fight Varty filmed & remember him stating Seatao was about 240 kgs.

Same is done with Madla of Panna, everyone states his weight as 250 kilos, where actually he TIPPED scale!!!  Little help, plz...

Here is a email from Raghu Chundawat.
I hope it helps.

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Well 
I understand those basics..duh!!! 

That's not what I'm asking...Here, they just assumed everything beyond 250kg to be stomach content. While an expert of Chundawat's stature can estimate its mass to a degree of accuracy by looking at tigers belly...say 15±3 kgs.
That means, he took the pointer to stop at 265kgs, making Madla's empty weight 250kgs.
Now..how do we know, where the pointer WAS GONNA STOP??!?!!!
But suppose the pointer were to stop at 275kilos, which it couldn't due to scale being limited. That would imply he weighed 260kilos...

See my confusion!?..How do we know that base from where stomach content's mass is to be subtracted?!  Reply