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

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(04-07-2014, 02:02 AM)'Kingtheropod' Wrote: Hello everyone

I am planning on creating a similar table to Guates like the average body mass of east African lions Guate did sometime ago. This time it will be with all the availabile records I can find on tigers. It will be done on a similar manner as Guate did here...

It will take all the individual records and put them into a large sample
http://animalbattle.yuku.com/reply/639/E...#reply-639

Here is the sample of all the other figures in literature I can find. All are males and measured (in cm) between pegs, but the important figure here is the weight:






Tiger No. Total length Weight in kg (and lb). Reference


1 , 292 198.2 (437) ,Baker, 1891


2 , – 236.2 (520.8) ,Brown, 1893


3 , - 203 (448) ,Lockyer, 1876


4, – 158.5 (349.5) ,Sanderson, 1879


5, – 161 (355) ,Inverarity, 1888


6, 283 172.4 (380) ,Lydekker et al., 1897


7, 267 164 (362) ,Lydekker et al., 1897


8, – 267.6 (590) ,Singh, 1959


9 , 323 222.7 (491) ,Ward, 1907


10 , 306 252.7 (557) ,Ward, 1921


11 , – 275.8 (608) ,Pocock, 1939


12, – 272 (600) ,Singh, 1970


13, – 250 (551) ,Chundawatt, pers. Comm.


14, – 240 (529) ,Chundawatt, 2004


15, – 220 (485) ,Sariska NP, web page


16, 297 188.7 (416) ,Burton, 1915


17, 292 256.3 (565) ,Berg, 1943


18 , 295 227 (500) ,*Burton, 1936


19, – 156 (344) ,Marshall, 1937


20, – 149.7 (330) ,Marshall, 1937


21, 285 213.2 (470) ,Stewart, 1927

22, - 227 (500) , *Alabama Conservation, 1944

23, - 292 (645) , Ward 1922

24, - 217 (478) , Ford News 1923

25, - 225 (496) , Quarterly 1956

26, - 224 (494) , Quarterly 1956

27, - 186.4 (411) , Quarterly 1956

28, - 159 (350) , Wroughton JBNHS (Vol. 22, pp. 29-66)

29, - 149.2 (329) , Buckland 1885

30, - 205 (452) , Buckland 1885

Average 212 kg (468 lb), n=30




*Exceeded scale limit
NOTE: This table aims not to include any tigers from Sundurbans, due to possibility they are genetically separate subspecies. No weights above 300 kg included.


I will change this table later. I will be adding to this soon

 

KingT, the book of Gerad Wood (1978) will help you with the length of some of those males that you used:

*This image is copyright of its original author

I will help you with that, but for now, I am finishing the table about the size of Indian lions.
 

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(04-07-2014, 04:20 AM)'peter' Wrote: Many years ago, while trying to find Dunbar Brander's book on Indian wildlife ('Wild Animals of Central India'), I found a French translation (...) in a secondhand bookstore. I bought it and still have it.

Unfortunately, I never found Dunbar Brander's book in English. Later, on AVA, I saw a number of pages from the Original. They were posted in a thread on the size of Indian tigers. I compared them to the same pages in the French translation and concluded the translation (in which feet and pounds were replaced by cm. and kg.) was not quite accurate. For this reason, I never quoted from the French translation.

The cover of the French translation, however, was scanned because of the nice tiger. He probably was one of the tigers Dunbar Brander shot, but I'm not sure as there is no information on him in the text. Here's the cover of the French translation:

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And this is the first time I succeeded in transferring a picture from Photobucket to this forum. It took me some days, but it seems I'm now in business. Luctor et emergo.

 

That is a massive tiger. Could be this the famous giant of 221 cm head-body from Brander? The tail of the tiger in the picture is very short, just like the huge male.

I will love to have a picture of him. [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]



 

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