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

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"3 - The only tiger weighed was tiger 03 (table XV). Although baited, he tiger vigorously attacked a howdah elephant. He was shot in mid-air by the Maharajah. At 10.9 and 705 pounds, he was both long and heavy. Based on what I read, I concluded he could have been 10.4 - 10.5 'between pegs' in total length and 635-660 pounds empty. My guess is he would have been closer to 660, as he was able to attack a howdah elephant. Furthermore, he didn't seem to be gorged on the plate posted in the previous post."

I'd assume that the maharajah was so intrigued by the size of that tiger that he felt the need to weight it.
But that is purely a guess....
Usually the body length is a good gauge and you can use other tigers weighed to compare them to each other when looking at body length. But exceptions always exist (health, body type, etc)
 A 10'9'' Tiger over the curves is a huge cat though, much larger than the 600+lb sauraha male.
"Two Nepal male tigers bottomed a 600-pound scale a few decades ago. I have no details about the one weighed by Dinerstein, but the Sauraha male was 10.2 'over curves' when he had been radio-collared and was darted again. Quite a bit shorter than the 10.9 giant shot in 1933. We have to add that the Sauraha tiger had a long tail."

Just look at the Cooch Behar, Duars, Assam table... The longest cats are  around 311cm compared to 327cm for that cat and they are over 500lbs so the additional 5'' of length plus unknown factors such as height, chest and limb girth, etc. Show that the size mentioned certainly is obtainable. Reply