Who is the "king" of tigers? - Bengal or Amur

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(08-20-2014, 08:24 PM)'Vinod' Wrote:

(08-20-2014, 09:44 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: "In 1910, Jim Corbett shot a tiger in North India, this one weighed 317 kg (700 lbs).


There is a myth in the web that Jim Corbett weighed a tiger of 317 kg, but this is false. Corbett did not weighed any of his tigers, and apparently he only measured two of all his hunts. The tiger that weighed 317 kg was hunted by Captain M D Goring-Jones in Central Provinces (Wood, 1977).


 

what does it mean by Central Provinces?  Madhya Pradesh?

well in that case its a 317 kg Central Indian specimen & not a North Indian Tiger, right?
 

 

Quoting from Wikipedia: "The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states."

So yes, this tiger of 700 lb was from Central India and was not weighed by Jim Corbett. Interesting, this animal is a record, but most the treated as an exceptional specimen and not the norm, between 230 and 250 kg is the normal maximum in this region.
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