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

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

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09-10-2016, 08:16 AM

Tiger body mass underestimated in historical records


After reading numerous records, I noticed that many hunters have weighed there tigers in different ways. Some hunters have even weighed there tigers in small pieces. This causes a problem, cutting up and weighing an animal in small pieces causes the animal to loss its blood weight, resulting in a reduction in its mass. Keep in mind, blood alone makes up approximately ~7% of the body weight of an organism. Peter or Guate, what do you think?

Baker (1890) gives the weight of one tiger that we shot as 437 lbs, but he later took into account that the animal he shot have lost a significant amount of blood, estimated at 10 lbs.


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Other hunters that have weighed tigers have not only shot there tigers causing them to bleed out before weighing, but have even cut there animal into small pieces...

Hornaday (1891) gives the weight of one tiger at 495 lbs, but there is a problem, check out how he weighed the tiger...


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And as far as I've seen, he isn't the only one that did this. Thoughts?
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RE: ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - TIGERS (Panthera tigris) - Kingtheropod - 09-10-2016, 08:16 AM
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