ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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In fact, that is true, my image is just a "collection" of the maximum dimensions that a tiger can get, but the numbers came from several animals. For example, the great tiger of Brander with 221 cm in head-body, only had a chest girth of 150 cm, the figure of 160 cm came from another massive, but shorter, male tiger hunted by Cambell. The shoulder height of the Brander tiger was of 109 cm, but he measured a taller tiger at 112 cm and the Maharaha of Cooch Behar presented one specimen with 114 cm.

The figure of c.290 kg represent the heavy 320 kg tiger "unbaited", hypothetically speaking, as IF the specimen only ate 14 kg, for example, it could weight even more than 300 kg!

The large tiger of 320 kg vouched by Smythies (1942) measured 10 feet 9 inches (328 cm) in total length "over curves", which means an animal of 311-314 cm "between pegs". Sadly, as we know, the total length is an irrelevant measurements if don't have the actual length of the body and Smythies don't give more details about this animals, except the incredibly good draw in his book. Check it again:

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It looks like a colored photograph. We can see that the tail is very short, so I guess that this is a good candidate to match the size of the giant tiger of Brander, in all its measurements. Reply