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B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

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( This post was last modified: 04-26-2015, 09:42 PM by Pckts )

(04-25-2015, 09:05 PM)'strana' Wrote:
(04-25-2015, 03:23 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: If highways are going to cut across prime tiger habitat, they need to inforce a police monitored, very slow speed limit and have extremely heavy fines and treat a tiger death the same way they would treat a human death. Investigate it and if found to be the drivers fault, they should face the consuquences, IMO. 


 
My first post here  !!!
These highways are really a problem for tigers. According to Times of India a 15 months tigress cub was run over near Tadoba. Very sad indeed. When I think that India is almost  certainly destined to be a major power, possibly the 3r largest economy in the world around 2025, the situation of highways around and inside Tiger Reserves can be a great challenge to deal with. According to tigernet, more tigers have died this year than in the same period of 2014, and they are not considering the mysterious case of the 5 missing tigers in Ranthambore...[img]images/smilies/sad.gif[/img]
By the way, I have a small question. It is said everywhere that tigers from South India are not as big as tigers from Central and North India. Unfortunately there are not many pics from south tigers, but those which I saw, the tigers does not look smaller at all. Considering that many tigers live in South India, specially Karnataka, there might be some "monsters" , but they are not easy to spot.

 

 


Welcome, you're correct, there are very few S. Indian tigers spotted but the famous Raja seems to be every bit as large as other tigers. I have seen a few photographers say that they are not quite as large as other tigers but I think it will just depend on the tiger. There may not be a waghdoh but Im sure Raja is every bit as large as many other tigers from central india. IMO
 

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After watching some video of Raja compared to Tadoba tigers and Kahna tigers, where I think he may be slightly smaller is in the neck/head region and possibly the hind quarters. Maybe its because his chest and arms are so huge and it makes his hind quarters seem more lean, but when comparing him to a tiger like Katezari/Waghdoh/Munna etc. They seem to be thick from front to back more so than Raja. But i would bet raja is as tall or taller than all of them, but I would be curious about body length.
If I'm estimating rajas weight, I'm putting him in the 220-240kg I think.
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