B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

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(04-14-2014, 03:05 PM)'Rage2277' Wrote: Somanshu son of Bamera and Vijaya april 2014

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This is a perfect example of a 2-3 years old male of 160-170 kg. That is why I think that those small males of this weight should NOT be included in the samples of Cooch Behar, Hewett and Brander, because they are not fully grow and are clearly underweight. Tigers in this time of they life are beginning they solitary wanderings and some of them find a hard life, although they already reach almost adult body lengths. The male T-104 captured in Nepal by Dr Sunquist was a subadult of 19 to 28 months old that weighed only 159 kg but already had a length of 289 cm. So, body length is not evidence of great age, while weight, at some degree, seems more reliable. However, not to forget that males in bad shape do weight less than normal (remember the adult Amur tigers that weighed less than 150 kg because they had several health problems).

I think that the range of 175-260 kg for adult male tigers, stated by Karanth (2003) is the most reliable. A male >3 years old in good shape most not weight less than that, although there are some subadult males that weighed up to 450 lb (204 kg).

Check the last post of peter here too, he put it very clear.
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