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Tigers of Ranthambore & Western India Landscape

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( This post was last modified: 12-22-2015, 01:21 AM by Pckts )

In terms of spotting them, I can't speak on that since I've never been. What I hear is that ranthambhore is as close as you're going to get to a "guaranteed tiger sighting."

In regards to size, here is what we know for sure...
Two males have been weighed from Ranth. 220kg and 240+kg. Ustad is large but he isn't the largest male there, so that means you have right now 3 other males who are at least 240kg (t42, t28 & t72)


Tadoba- has one male who was weighed, 185kg and he is gabbar, not the largest tiger there and definitely smaller than Saturn and katezari as confirmed by their fights. Wagdoh is repeatedly said to be larger than any tiger there and bamera. So you know wag. Is a huge boy, how huge remains to be seen.

Band. Males are big but we already know from eye witness accounts that bamera was not close to wag. In size. The new ruler, Bheema is easily larger than any male he's compared to. His fight against jobhi, who is another huge male showed us just how massive Bheema really is.

With all that being said, I still think Ranth. Has the largest males on average between the 3 places mentioned. 

But the largest I believe are kaziranga males, terrai arc area and himalaya males.
Corbett gets an honorable mention since very reputable people have said they are as large as any tiger out there but to me, they don't look as large as some other places but looks can be deceiving as we all know.
Edit: Corbett is in the Terai Arc area thanks to @Shardul for the correction.

So I guess in this case, bergmans rule may apply to Bengal tigers.
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RE: Ranthambore - scamander - 12-19-2015, 12:24 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Pckts - 12-19-2015, 12:35 AM
RE: Ranthambore - scamander - 12-19-2015, 12:55 AM
RE: Ranthambore - scamander - 12-19-2015, 12:56 AM
RE: Ranthambore - brotherbear - 06-09-2016, 01:43 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Sully - 12-19-2015, 12:30 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Sully - 12-19-2015, 12:34 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Pckts - 12-19-2015, 12:59 AM
RE: Ranthambore - sanjay - 12-19-2015, 03:19 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Pckts - 12-19-2015, 03:44 AM
RE: Ranthambore - scamander - 12-19-2015, 09:01 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Sully - 12-19-2015, 01:32 PM
RE: Ranthambore - Pckts - 12-19-2015, 09:34 PM
RE: Ranthambore - Shardul - 12-20-2015, 11:51 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Pckts - 06-09-2016, 01:23 AM
RE: Ranthambore - Pckts - 06-09-2016, 01:47 AM
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