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

[Rishi]

(05-08-2018, 08:50 AM)Greatearth Wrote: I spoke with one conservationists in Bangladesh. He thinks male tigers in Sunderban are big as male tiger in mainland India and Nepal. The size records of the Sunderban tigers are all sick and old tigers. He said it very difficult to capture alive and measure healthy tigers due to harsh environments.

LOL. No!

The smallest recorded weights for Bengal tigers are from Sundarban (Bangladesh & India). Because Bangladesh doesn't have tigers left anywhere other than Sundarbans, they're as insecure with the Sundarban's tigers' size as they are proud of its alleged ferocity!
(I'm Bengali, we share the language & interact a lot on social media)

Researchers are people too... Nobody likes to say "Our tigers are smallest in the world".

Has he even seen Central Indian or Terai tigers, let alone measured?

Even severely sick & dying mainland specimens have almost never been weighed as low as 150 kilos (males). Sundarban males can drop below 100kg in bad condition. Check this out #115.

I asked around when i went to Sundarbans last December & 150kg is considered a pretty big tiger! Here's the official figures (I trust it because they took the effort of sticking a strip with new data. Original one had 200-250 kg on it):

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Only thing he's right about is that they're not as small as they're said to be.
Healthy females are about 100kg (from documentary). Reply