Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[Dark Jaguar]

(09-02-2020, 10:31 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(09-02-2020, 06:46 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: About the accuracy of the news report, it could be changed and corrected for sure in case there's different ones than the ones already presented and lets remember those reports ( one of which was a research about the translocation of the tigers ) have claims of veterinarians and conservationists who were involved in these captures and procedures.

Experience told me that many times, even news reports with claims of veterinaries are incorrect and that is why we need to double check the reports, experience in more than 17 years in the "business" is speaking here.

One webpage from a known international veterinay agency claimed that an Amur tiger radiocollared weighed 250 kg, but when I researched with two experts from the field it results that it was only 185 kg.

Other webpage claimed that a Bengal tiger captured for veterinary purposes weighed 280 kg, it resulted that it was not even weighed, just estimated.

Several records from the news papers only have ranges of weights, like a Sumatran tigress posted here, which obviously is an estimation in many cases. Other news reports don't even mention the sex of the specimens and only says "tiger". So, there are several lissues when we try to gatter figures, and from my part at least, I allways try to check with the original source or even better, the original scientists that worked in the field.

Like I said, the experiance is talking here and many of the old memebers in the forum like @peter for example, can corroborate what I am telling you.

Like I already said, in case there's different and more accurate reports, accounts of the same case it could be changed, corrected in my posts with no problems. until then I'll keep these ones. Reply