Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(01-27-2022, 09:46 PM)GuateGojira Wrote: I was cheking this other table from the asme document of the Panna tigers and I found a lot of problems, again:

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The information of the females is ok, also the data of the tigers 3 and 8. So they are usefull. The problem came with the males 4 to 7, the measurements, again, do not match.

Tiger No. 4 says that is over 3 years old, so while the weight of 16 kg is very low, we can justivy it that it was not in good shape, or maybe as is a young old that was in search for a territory. However the body emasurements are too small for a tiger of that size, with a head-body of only 169 kg looks more like a subadult. The case of male 5 is even worst, with also over 3 years of age and 199 kg (which seems normal), they report a head-body of 151 cm, that is like a big leopard, not an adult tiger! However if we continue we found that make 6 and 7, which are cubs of less than 2 years, they are reported with head-body lenght os over 180 cm! So, what is going on here???

The best explanation that I can give is that they guy that make this tables mix all the data, again. Those body measuments are certainly for males 4 and 5, and the small sized correspond with the cub tigesr 6 and 7.

This is really dissapointing because we are making a lot of corrections and assumptions from this document, that at every time that I see it, it si frustrating. I don't know if I should include the males 4 and 5, with the correction, or just ignore them and include only females 1 and 2, plus male 8, as are the only ones that actually make sense.

It really goes to show that the hunters in past were the true experts. Researchers today aren't focused on measurements but hunters of yester-year were only focused on measurements. And when you measure 10s-100s of cats, your expertise cannot be questioned. Reply