Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[SpinoRex]

(03-09-2022, 12:54 AM)abhisingh7 Wrote:

(03-09-2022, 12:36 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(03-08-2022, 04:55 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: First of all i was confirmed that the tigers from Buthan (Near to Assam area, near to Royal Manas NP). From my research they are Himalayan Tigers, which are considered to be one of the biggests looking at some pictures. The weight for adult males was 165 kg, 170 kg, 180 kg and 210 kg. (pers com Buthan Tiger Center)

Like Ashutosh says, you are making a completelly incorrect assumption here. It is like saying that because Sundarbans is near to the Assam, in comparison with Cental Indian tigers, they are of the same region. In just a couple of kilometers the habitat change a lot in the Indian subcontinent, the Assam is very diffeente from the regions of Bhutan, habitat is completelly different and even prey base is different. 

By they way, who says that Bhutan tigers are big? Based in pictures? are you serious? There is no information about tigers from Bhutan, those are the first 4 weights reported in modern records and in the entire hunting litterature, so we can't make assumptions for the moment. Also, we miss the details of the individuals, age and health status is necessary.

What is interesting is that the body mass is similar to the Indochinese tigers, in males at least:
Indochina male tigers: 181 kg - n=11 - range: 162 - 209.
Bhutan male tigers: 181 kg - n=4 - range: 165 - 210.

Let's see what new information they provide in the future. I also wrote to them, but they do not answered to me.

tigers hunted by mahraja of cooch beher were from same vegetation as we have in bhutan and buxa tiger reserve (currently no tiger in buxa tiger reserve). these tigers are among smallest mainland bengal tigers .

Hi,

Those of from "Behaar" were quite large. They actually hunted in 3 areas and the males from Behaar surpassed those from the assam and Duars region. The difference for all 3 areas were insignificant in weight(P = 0.5). I decided to list up the HBL measurements for the weighed males.

Duars: 206 kg, 204 cm (curves) n=12
Assam: 207 kg , 204 cm (curves) n=14
C.Behaar: 215 kg , 204 cm (curves) n=8 Reply