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

[tigerluver]

I've made a chest girth equation for Amurs as well, probably with a similar or same result as Kerley et al. 2005 as there's only one published database. It's strongly negatively allometric, you reach a point where huge girths will not estimate proportionally huge masses. I think the problem lies with the limited data, as I wouldn't expect girth, a dimension unlike length which has more 3 dimensional implications, to be negatively allometric to such an extent, unless the wide specimens are just very short for some odd reason (unlikely). Reply