Estimate weights on animals.

[Pckts]

(10-12-2016, 09:07 PM)Pantherinae Wrote: @Pckts the 380 kg tiger is an old hunting weight right? ? I personally use only vertified weight's as the biggest weighed. I think @GuateGojira had a great desciption about that tiger and that the scale used could be bottomed out by so, so much, and then he took away the stomach content. Correct me if I'm wrong ?

That's fine, if your personal criteria only allows modern specimens that have been peer reviewed, that is your prerogative.
But the "hunting record" is still weighed on a scale and accepted, at least as the modern day worlds largest wild cat.
Subtracting stomach content is anything but scientific, its merely a guessing game and extremely subjective.
But sunquist stated that the animal in question didn't have an enlarged stomach

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Also, trying to determine how much more the big cat weighs that bottoms out the scale is subjective as well, its like you or I stepping on a scale that only goes up to 200lbs but we weigh 250lbs, how are we suppose to know exactly how much over the scale we are?
How are we suppose to know how much food we have in our stomachs?
The end of the day, your body only fluctuates a few lbs, which is why you can step on the scale the same time every day and usually be fairly close, whether you just had a meal or not. Not that we are tigers, but big cats should apply the same rule. Even if they ate, when did they eat?
How much did they eat?
How much as been digested and processed?
and so on...
I just think it's better to remove these personal guidelines and just use the data at hand. Reply