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

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Excellent post @peter. It was really informative to read about the habitats in Nepal, and it is impressive to confirm that the area described by Smythies is in fact the same Chitwan of modern days.

If you don't mine, I would like to add an "appendix" like post, showing how are the "modern" method to capture tigers, which is based in the one described so detailed by Smythies.

Again, excellent posts, I like very much to see all the data available in a book, not only size, but also methods, habitat, culture and the people in the area.

I am impressed by the last picture, that tiger with the king George V is very large and remind me the Sauraha male in size and seems slightly smaller than the giant of 705 lb, described by Smythies. It is also interesting that this large animal had a flat belly, which means that it was not baited, or if it was, it had not ate much. Some of the animals looks definitely baited but others are flat, which means that not all the tigers were full of beef. Reply