Tigers of Central India

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(11-20-2016, 01:18 AM)Pckts Wrote:





Abhijeet Mude Minh Ha sir can u please tell me the weights of tigers & tigresses which were collared in kanha like konda male I am very much keen to know
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Minh Ha I'd like to, but my friend at WII who shares it with me would like me to keep it to myself, so I can't break the promise. But the same friend also commented on this group before, that of the 2 males Konda and Banda who were collared in Oct and Feb 2007 respectively, both exceeded 225kg and since the scale only went up to 225kg, their exact weight can't be measured. Let me stress that when Jai (considered the biggest indian tiger by many) was collared in Sep 2015, his weight was 220kg. It means he's smaller than Banda and Konda. And Banda and Konda are simply 2 average males of Kanha; Munna and Umarpani male are bigger than them. In fact, Bhima exceeded Jai's weight when he was 2.5 yrs old; and by now he's most likely some 80kg heavier than he was at 2.5 yrs old, so again he's much bigger than Jai. Also, another son of BMW of pench, poisoned this Jan, weighed 225kg at 2.5 yrs old as well. Kanha and Pench are the 2 national parks where the biggest tigers of India are found. Collarwali of Pench, weighed 145 kg at 2.5 yrs old when measured in March 2008.
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Abhijeet Mude Thanks Minh Ha sir for sharing very interesting information but sir in case of jai his Weight was far less considered as per his gigantic size when jai was sedated second time he weighed 240 told by ranger to my wildlife rescue team mate
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Minh Ha Abhijeet when Jai was weighed 2nd time in March this year he weighed 215kg. It was confirmed to me by my WII friend :). Jai is never gigantic. He's a small tiger with a bulky build. Even so, his bulky build is far from unique. A lot of tigers have the same level of bulkiness, but bigger and far bigger. SOme examples include Munna, BMW, Muktar Singh, Karai Ghati male, Uma male and Bhima.
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Hi pckts. Can you find me the original text to that in the facebook? I'm having a hard time finding it.

Konda and Banda make that two more adult males, both exceeding 225 kg. The quote from Minh Ha also confirms what Vijay has said. The other subadult of 145 kg is also interesting. The weight for Jai, of course has already been confirmed, he weighed 220 to 238 kg (scale had 18 kg margin of error), but its interesting to know he was weighed a second time. One claiming 240 kg and another 215 kg. Best thing to do would be to go with original figure c.230 kg as this one was confirmed with detail with range of 220-238 kg scale margin of error (Karoo; Pers. Comm. 2015).

It's a shame they did not give an estimate for these weights. It would have been nice to know what they guessed the weight for these tigers that all exceeded their scales. Reply