Who is the "king" of tigers? - Bengal or Amur

[AndresVida]

(01-20-2022, 06:09 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Forth, the tiger (or tigers as there were two) did NOT weighed 261 kg but they bottomed the scale of 600 pounds used by the team! This fact was confirmed by Dr Dave Smith and Dr Eric Dinerstein, which mention that both males weighed over 270 kg. In this case, IF the idea of Dr Yamaguchi was real, these males could weight as low as 227 kg, not the 215 kg that he proposed. But as we know that these males were obviously not gorged (and probably not even baited in the case of M-105), we can use the figures reported by Dr Sunquist (between 14 - 19 kg) to estimate its empty belly weight and using the figure of 272 kg as the real weight, the "empty" figure will be about 256 kg, but as the scale was bottomed, this shows that there was extra weight and they could have actually weighed no less than 260 kg "empty". Interestingly, the figure of 261 kg came from an chest girth-weight equation and the figure that I estimate is about the same, so the figure of 261 kg do not represent a single heavilly-gorged specimen as Kitchener & Yamaguchi (2010) suggest, but the weight of two big males empty belly.

I wanted to ask a question regarding the two tigers of the terai that have bottomed the 272 kg scale. 

I've seen your estimate of around 10-11kg of stomach contents and your estimate of 261kg. But I have a question, is it true that this estimate of 261 kg is based on the only information of the weight we have of them (272 kg) and that if we actually really knew their weight, such as idk as example something between 276 - 281 kg would we have respectively 265 - 270 kg as a result of the type estimate? Reply