Amur Tigers

[LandSeaLion]

I found the old post with details about the correspondence:

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-modern-weights-and-measurements-on-wild-tigers?pid=52498#pid52498

Here is a photo of the male tiger said to be 345kg - the tigress in front of him is said (by the same source) to be 180kg:

*This image is copyright of its original author

Personally, I agree with Khan85 that it should not be used as a fact - especially given the same source also claimed to have weighed a tiger that was close to 400kg. These figures are several standard deviations beyond the verified largest tigers accepted in scientific record (which are in the ballpark of 270-280kg), and would mean that these tigers are as large as the biggest known cats from prehistoric times.

Don’t get me wrong, it would be pretty cool if there were 350-400kg cats still roaming in the wild…but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence for me to believe them.  Reply