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11-15-2021, 02:06 AM( This post was last modified: 11-15-2021, 02:14 AM by GuateGojira )
(04-05-2021, 12:40 PM)LoveAnimals Wrote: RELIABLE records of tigers who exceeded 300 kgs? I thought the largest reliable tiger ever measured was 271 kgs, c. 260 kg empty.
Where did you get the reliable 300+ kg tiger records considered reliable?
That post is from 2015, so you must understand that many things changed since then.
A reliable record is not necesary a scientific one. The heaviest tigers recorded by scientist are in fact two males of 272 kg+ recorded in Chitwan, Nepal. Now, in hunting records we have two Bengal males that surpassed the 300 kg, one from India of 318 kg and other of 320 kg in Nepal. However these are exeptional specimens and that is why I don't include them in my tables. Other things, tigers of those huge weights were cattle killers or had some stomach content, which suggest that they probable weighed as low as 280 - 290 kg empty, but this is just speculation.
At the end, we have reliable-scientific records of male tigers between 250 - 272 kg from India/Nepal and Russia. Anything over that is exceptional and should be taked with caution.
DNA samples of Bengal tigers polluted by genes of the Siberian Tiger
