Girth Comparaison of Animals

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@Pckts :

About #137: Thank you for your explanations. I have never thought that we could measure the head and body length over the curves. OK, I noticed there were numerous accounts at the Carnivora forum about the measurement methods, but as nobody seems to be agree with nobody I was rather reluctant to read the different arguments...  Laziness, I confess...

But in this case, what I retain of your explanations is that the correlation index between weight and chest girth is very high because it remains quite valid when two morphologically differents animals of two differents classes, groups (felid and ursid in this case), are involved. In this case because of the shoulder humps and the rounded rump the bear's length makes quickly the tiger's length up. It makes a difference ! In this case too, I admit your observation "If they are the same weight, the Tiger and Bear have similar chest girth". I admit but I don't check it.

In fact, despite the chest girth is the a length figure it depicts a volume. A volume like a weight (weight = volume X density). Reply