Captive Lion and Tiger weights

[Ashutosh]

(08-11-2019, 05:21 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(08-11-2019, 04:56 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: Hello @Shadow,

The video is of other captive tigers. In the post that you quoted by me, there was another link to an article, which talks about both the sibling tigers lacking oscilli or white patches on the back of their ears. You can clearly see tigers in the video have their oscilli.

There is a possibility that those tigers were kept away from public as to not get them used to humans because the original plan was to reintroduce them to the wild.

Those tigers are kept separately, that I found out when trying to find something. But there really isn´t too much about these tigers, which could be found easily at least. Maybe only way to get more information would be to contact that zoo/biological park. There is quite a lot of footage from there, but those don´t open up situation. Pity, it would be really interesting to see these tigers, especially a tigress claimed to be as big as male tigers tend to be.

(08-11-2019, 05:30 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(08-11-2019, 05:22 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: This is a picture of one of the tigers from 2013 when they were sub-adults. Notice the back of the ears. They are jet black and missing the oscilli.

Yes, I´ve seen that. One thing, btw about it, what they are and a good example about it, that why there is a need to be careful when reading articles from different medias.

Quote:
"Ipra Mekola, the one after whom Ipra was named, hopes the cubs are released into the wild soon. "These tigers are our pride," he says. "Earlier people did not even believe that Dibang Valley had tigers."

That's what so great about them, says Jahan Ahmed. "Initially we thought they may belong to the South China sub-species, and had probably migrated through the rugged Eastern Himalayas to the Dibang Valley. But genetic tests have confirmed that they are Royal Bengal tigers, proving once again that the species is not going to be wiped out, as people think.""

Source: http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/two-tigers-in-a-boat-to-say-nothing-of-the-900-km/1181860/6

This is quite interesting, that one source tells, that genetic tests have been made and results are clear. Then later another source claims, that there has been some tests, but no results.... so is there some problem in it, how information is forwarded to different people or what? Maybe time will tell.

They are Bengal tigers as proved by genetic analysis, but unlike any sub population of tigers sequenced from anywhere in India, whereby their closest relatives would be tigers from North Eastern India and flood plains (not Kaziranga as they have a different subpopulation marker). I did some research on it because while you and I haven’t seen the size of these tigers, YV Jhala, head of Wildlife Institute of India has and even he was taken aback by their size.

“Yadvendradev V. Jhala, WII’s large carnivore expert, said the reported size of the Anini tigers does not match that of the Indo-Chinese that are smaller than the Royal Bengal. “The physical features of the two tigers at Itanagar zoo officials make them worthy of a study.” he said in Dehradun. ” Reply