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(08-23-2014, 12:17 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: I agree with everything other than "collaring"

Just because tigers have died from the stress induced, capture methods or Misjudged drugging.

As much as we want them to weigh every big male tiger out there, technically it serves no real purpose in conservation so it shouldnt be a priority. IMO
 

 

As far I know, there is not a single case of a tiger dead from stress or misjudged drugs. In fact, the only cases, in Nepal, of dead tigers are the female tigress of Nepal that died from overheating (she was in bad shape) and the Sauraha male, which was just a stupid accident. From then, no other tiger have died in India for collaring.

In Russia, the method of the snare was the problem, but in Kaziranga, the proper method should be the baiting, and now that we know that it is possible to subtract the stomach content, knowing the weight of the bait at the beginning, this method have proved to be very reliable to capture tigers and to take reliable weights.

Measure tigers do have a conservation purposes. Check that through this data, Russian scientists compare how the low prey base affected the developing of the large morphology of the Amur tigers. Also, it will be possible to compare the sizes of tigers from different areas and know how the prey base affect (or not) the size of this animals.

For example, in Nepal, the prey base is optimum and large tigers born there. However, tigers in Panna have a very low prey base, but still, tigers there are huge, with the scientific record from India at 250 kg. On the other side, Nagarahole tigers live in a tiger "paradise" with one of the largest prey base in the world. However, the tigers in this area are no near those from Panna. Finally, the Sundarbans tiger, which are in fact from the Bengal subspecies, based on DNA, have the smallest prey base and develop sizes as small as the extinct Bali tigers. Those points are interesting to be studied, compared and can provide a much clear idea of what tigers need to be "what they are".

Finally, don't believe those stupid articles from 2009 when a crazy Bangladesh journalist blamed scientist of killing tigers. He was just a stupid man trying to be famous. At 2014, only TWO tigers, from over 100 captured in the entire subcontinent have died and none of them seems affected by "stress".
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