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(07-03-2014, 10:36 AM)'Roflcopters' Wrote:

(07-01-2014, 09:19 PM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(07-01-2014, 05:24 AM)'Roflcopters' Wrote:

(06-30-2014, 10:24 PM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(06-30-2014, 08:26 AM)'Roflcopters' Wrote: Panna was nowhere near notorious for Large Tigers prior to the Conservation efforts of Dr.Raghu Chundawat. Infact it was one of the mellow Tiger Reserves that people hardly visited and by the time Brokentooth and Madla were weighed, they were plenty of large males from different parts of Central India.. now we're talking 2000-2004 time frame and males like Sultan (Tadoba) B2 (Bandhavgarh) Bokha (Bandhavgarh) Jabbar (Tadoba) Konda (Kanha) Laxmi's male (Kanha) were all still alive and kicking.. each and every single one of them stood out from their respective habitats.. I have talked to a countless people from the time i started with my tiger business and from all the research.. I've found that Madla and Hairyfoot's potential stopped at prime Bamera.. Wagdoh and the new offset of males like Jay, Katezari, Shivaji & Jobhi etc might be on the same league as Hairyfoot/Madla guys but Wagdoh is clearly the god father among them all. 

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Prime Bamera is said to be between the 220-230kg range, two eye witnesses of him said the same thing here, so madla and hairyfoot where a considerable amount larger than Bamera.
But every single person who sees Waghdoh says he is the largest tiger they have ever seen outside of Kaziranga.
So Waghdoh could definitely be larger than Madla/hairyfoot

 




 

Please tell me you're joking, I can't take this post serious at all. 



 

Thats what 2 eye witnesses said about him on this forum.
Posted 5 different accounts about people saying Waghdoh is much largere than Bamera.
So not exactly sure what you problem with the post would be.
Please elaborate

 


 

two eyewitnesses from this forum over more than a dozen people i am regularly in contact with? are you kidding me? how do you think i acquire most of my pictures.. and I agree Wagdoh is way larger than Bamera but the difference can't be over 30kg imho. keep in mind, before Wagdoh's emergence as the King of Tadoba's Mohurli range. Bamera was considered one of the largest male from Central India and a large male from Central India would just tip the 220-230kg capacity scale doesn't make any sense. Infact, even B2 his father was one of the biggest male in his time and Bamera was even bigger than him so are you saying, B2 and Bamera are just average tigers? Bamera was literally all over the news, I've covered Bamera since the time he first appeared on the radar. 

I generally always avoid topics like this because it takes alot of my time to find pictures and add to the menu, unfortunately. I don't have that time right now but use logic. Madla and Hairyfoot were only big because they were weighed, most known huge males don't even get weighed and have gone down without getting the stardom they deserved. B2, Bokha, Konda, Banda, Pench's Charger, Shamsher of Nagzira, Jay, Shivaji, Katezari, Jobhi, Mukunda, Yeda Anna, Basant Bandhara, Sultan, Jabbar, Melghat's large male that had a territory covering 3/4 of the park.. point is, none of them were ever weighed so we don't know how to compare them with the likes of Hairyfoot/Madla.. this is when i turn to eyewitnesses and out of everyone i've ever talked to. no one put Bamera as an underdog.

 

 

Bamera very well can be a 250kg plus, but from what I have read and seen, he is quoted as big, muscalar but always smaller than Wag. and on the shorter side, quoted from a few.
B2 was the smallest of his brothers, Correct?
I know there are tons of unweighed tigers that could easily be huge weights, I would never deny that. But looking at all tiger weights I can find throughout history, I think 220-230kg is a large sized tiger. I don't think I am doing Big Bam a disservice by saying that, I could easily be off by 20kg but I think If he was empty bellied, 220-230kg is a large tiger.
IMO
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