B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

[johnny rex]

(12-28-2019, 07:23 AM)Roflcopters Wrote:

Quote:I would bet my life on Umarpani being bigger. 

Wagdoh is not that big imo. I have heard people say he was huge and people say he’s about the size of Matkasur. He’s more fat than anything else. Here he’s skinny and I’m not very impressed tbh not very muscular and with a rather small head compared to Kanha males. I think when he’s fat he tricks your view.

@Pantherinae 

It’s been a while, good to see you’re still around. I would also have to disagree with you on that. Matkasur is my favorite tiger from Tadoba and it’s safe to say, he is probably one of the smallest male from Tadoba. Waghdoh was in a league of his own, the two never really compared. 
Waghdoh was a very long tiger, he was tall and massive to the core. a well known gaur specialist, he was quite honestly the Ronnie Coleman of Central India, no other tigers even from MP side compared during his Prime. Bamera from MP was also around the same time and when people saw both, Waghdoh was easily their first pick without much room for debate.

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Sudhir Shivaram has seen more than a dozen tigers in his life time, he saw Bamera and Waghdoh in their prime.

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Farooque Khan has also seen his fair share of tigers, when he saw Waghdoh. He was amazed. 

this is just me cherry picking but there is a reason why Waghdoh was considered one of the biggest tiger of all time, mainly in Central India.

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not many tigers can compete with this level of massiveness, even in the present days. 


here is the old man now a days

even for a tiger who’s 16/17 now, he’s still a beast. 


Also the argument that Kanha tigers are the biggest in Central India is far from the truth, the prey options are mainly the same. just higher in some areas and mild in others. on that note, the biggest males from Pench, Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Tadoba, Panna, Melghat and Satpura are all comparable. the general rule is that tigers that often hunt larger prey tend to be the biggest. for example, i’m willing to bet Dadyal, Shiva and Bajrang of Tadoba are all  bigger than Dhamangaon, Bajrang of Kanha and CM of Kanha.

Maybe Waghdoh is just massive because of his large and long body, perhaps not because of his frame. I think his skull and his overall frame is smaller than the Northern giants despite maybe close in weight. If you know Enzo the white tiger from BJWT, he looks like a tank and he looks massive but when you see the size comparison between him and his owner Eddie it looks like Enzo is just a normal male tiger with a normal sized frame. Reply