Brander, Hewett and the Maharaja of Cooch Behar: a review to the records

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(04-01-2014, 09:53 PM)Kingtheropod Wrote: Hello everyone, glad to be here!

KingT here

Good work Guate, nicely done...

About the weight of 355 pounds from Hewett, the weight of the animal is actually mentioned on page 148. It measured 9 ft 4 inches.

However, peter said that he concluded that the tiger of 355 was not adult yet, so I recommend excluding it. Greetings :)

http://books.google.ca/books?ei=tu46U7_n...lume&q=355

Hi KingT, good to see you here.

Thanks for the link, I have found the two smaller specimens, here is the image:

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The average weight for all males is now of of 200.0 kg (n=20; range 161 – 258.5) while that of females was of 136.1 kg (n=8; range 113.4 – 157.4). Take in count that here I include the four specimens that seems to be sub-adult of at least between 3-4 years old or simply in bad shape (like the male with porcupine quills). If we take only those over 4 years (full grow), the average weight for males is now of 208.8 kg (n=16; range 170.1 – 258.5). This seems the most reliable and is larger than those from Cooch Behar (excluding the gorged specimens).

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(04-01-2014, 09:34 PM)Pckts Wrote: How does Branders "600lb" tiger measure up to other large specimens?
59'' body girth
39'' Head
21'' Forearm girth
43'' shoulder height
7'3'' Body Length
2'8'' Tail Length

He is quoted in being in awe of its massive neck muscles and says that the same bullet that was used for killing shots didn't even make it to the bone on this tiger.


Great work BTW,
Thanks a lot.

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We can definitely assume with a larger body girth, forearm girth, and a taller shoulder height, as well as a longer body than any other of the "brown and cooch behar" tigers, that 600lbs is definitely not out of the question for that tiger.

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Will you be doing hunted lions next?

Hello Pckts, good to see you here too. :)

In fact, the giant tiger of Brander is the largest tiger I have ever saw in a record, measured between pegs. However, there are other tigers that probably reached its size and weight.

There is a tiger reported by Sterndale (1884), shot by Col Walter Campbell, that it was measured between pegs and had a head-body length of c.201 cm and a chest girth of 160 cm! This was surely a very heavy tiger, no less than 600 lb too.

The largest tiger overall is the Ramsay tiger. This huge brute surpass all the measurements of the Brander's giant. Although the total length was taken "over curves" (366 cm), taking in count that its tail was of 114 cm, and subtracting 25 cm of the length, we get a head-body of c.227 cm between pegs. This animal would be a true giant by any means.

Here is the image of the Ramsay tiger and a little list that I personally made some time ago, with several tigers between pegs (includes the record of Campbell).

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