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(08-16-2020, 07:48 PM)phatio Wrote: sorry for the late reply @GuateGojira, i just saw your question today.
the weight comes from veterinarian's ig post as you can see here:
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i also have two more measurements for you. 1 year old wild sumatran tiger named putra singgulung (boy from singgulung) weight 62kg, body lenght 95cm, including tail 170cm, height -, while his sister putri singgulung (girl from singgulung) weight 49,3 kg, body lenght 101cm, including tail 175cm, height 75cm. both comes from solok, west sumatra.
here's putri
once again, these figures comes from conflict/unhealthy tigers. 1 year old tigers without their mother clearly are problematic tigers. from the camera trap pictures we can see some big healthy "normal" wild tigers out there but we can only guess how much their weight since there are literally none of them, except maybe slamet, a healthy adult male weighing 150kg. we are all understand there are no reason for the govt/scientists to capture and takes measurements from these normal adult wild tigers, too much effort needed, too dangerous for both tigers and people involved. if india and rusia only have a few records, let alone sumatra, where prime adult tigers live deep inside thick jungle.
anyway here are some camera trap pictures of healthy wild specimens.
these tigers coming straight from the jungle.
Thank you very much for the information and the confirmation. Thank to this, I was able to track the record and found that this male was captured in Seluma in the year 2015 and was trated by the Veterinary and tiger expert Erni Suyanti Musabine, I found many information about her, so the record is relaible.
In this case, I manage to increse my sample on body mass of Sumatran tigers and the observation that all the records, except the male "Slamet", are from problematic animals is very important. I will provide more details in the topic of the "modern-weights-and-measurements-on-wild-tigers".
The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)
