Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(03-26-2022, 01:55 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: Also I'm a bit confused about the weights because of the email. In the email from Chundawat it says that the "minimum" weight (with stomach content) is 250 kg excluding the weighting things of 10+ kg (equipment, collar ...) with c.20 kg stomach content. 

In general bottomed weights do exceed the number but include equipment weight. Like the male lion puyol for instance exceeded 200 kg and reached in the 2nd turn 250 kg. Well it included bed equipment of 13 kg and therefore the weight could be adjusted to 237 kg. As he had stomach content his empty weight was c.220 kg.

Well, he says 250 kg "empty" in the email, but at the end he published 240+ kg in the book, so I am going for the published figure this time.

Other thing, none of the tigers weighed in Chitwan, Nagarahole and Panna (old ones) were weighed using a steel bed or anything like that. They used nets and those nets definitelly weight less than 10 kg. Check this:

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Scientists of the Siberian Tiger Project don't even used nets, but just got the tiger by the paws and weighed them directly:

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So I think that this new thing (or excuse) of trying to remouve the weight of the devices to create even more problems to adjust weigths (something that scientists don't care, except for very, very, very few cases), apply only to some modern records, only those that actually use them, like some lions from Africa. Besides there are different devices to weight great cats, check what Dr Bertram used:

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