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

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(01-07-2020, 10:05 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: @GuateGojira, when they were translocating tigers from Ranthambore to Sariska, they measured the tigers. ST-1 also knows as Rajour weighed 220 kilos. In the video, he seems like an average tiger. ST-6 or Baghani (daughter of Machli) weighed in at a very impressive 170 kilo. There were other tigers measured as well. I can’t find their weights, though.

This table summarize the data that I could found about the tigers captured and transported to Sariska:

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Now, about the size estimated by "eye" we must be very carefull as there is HUGE margin of error in the apreciation of size from person to person. The figures were confirmed by the authors, stating that they received the figures from the Wildlife Institute of India.

There are some doubts about the figures, for example the tigress ST-02 was to young to weight 170 kg and there is no consesus about the weight of the tigers ST-4. One say 170 kg, other say over 200 kg, this is a picture of him, you can judge by yourself:

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I don't have information about tigress ST-6 or Baghani, but like @Pckts said, there are consufions, and like @Greatearth said, those are probably just unreliable estimations. The examples of Pckts are good:
* Ustaad - several weights reported after its capture, just one was confirmed, at least.
* Jhumroo - a news article claimed to be 280kg later said to have not been weighed at all.
* T-12 - one article says it was 170 kg but other people say it can't be so low. Pictures of the tigers, on the other side, do not show an animal of exceptional size at all. 

Famous tigers like Machli, Charger (the original from Bandhavgarh) and B2 were also reported with figures of up to 300 kg, but none of them were weighed at all.


That is why I keep my data only with the figures corroborated. By the way, about the tiger "Gabbar" with 185 kg at Tadoba, I have my suspects that this figure was real but it was taken when this male was not adult but a subadult, as a report from the Time of India says that the 15 captured tigers (at 2019) were subadults, and is included Gabbar and Choti Tara, maybe some one can confirm this. Reply