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

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New tiger weights. The following are weights posted by pckts and others from 'Tiger in Central india' and 'Impressive females' forum.

1) Tiger named poochkanta exceeded 230 kg. (Sinha via facebook)

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2) Tiger Konda and Banda both exceeded scale of 225 kg in 2007, in Kanha national park. (Minh Ha via facebook). Tiger son of BMW of pench weighed 225 kg at 2.5 years old, after death. And a female tiger, also mentioned at the bottom, weighed 145 kg at 2.5 years old, weighed in 2008.

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Also an message confirming Jai was weighed a second time (Sadly, conflicting data shown) one 240 kg and another 215kg. Best go with original figure c.230kg from first weighing.

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A picture of the 145 kg tigress...

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Another female tiger. Credits to pckts weighed 150 kg...

"T-2 of Panna who was originally Indri female junior of Kanha, weighed 150kg at 3.5 yrs old. Both of these weights were taken when they're darted."
according to minh source...
Indri female eating her dead cub. Another interesting behaviour. She was Indri female Junior and now she's T2 of Panna.
OL:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/...311389.cms

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