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Wonderful post Guate. It comes down to environment (past prey base obviously, but that's a major factor) and probably some genetic chance in determining size of a population. Albeit, Nagarhole houses larger tigers in my opinion, seeing that a young male far from prime was around 250 kg, an old, decomposing male was 230-240 kg, and Dhasa was 257 kg, un-adjusted yet not gorged. From a small size of only one prime male, these seem like larger tigers.