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(03-28-2022, 03:40 AM)Khan85 Wrote: That's interesting. At just 19 kg of beef, the tiger appeared to be fully fed.
The other interesting thing was, while studying tigers, the first researchers i.e. Dr. Karanth and Dr. Chundawat adjusted the tigers for meat they ate. These first studies set the standards for modern research. I wonder if researchers still carry out similar procedures of recording tiger weights after adjusting them for food.
I am affraid that researchers probably still use those figures to adjust the weights of tigers using those figures (20-30 kg) when it seems that are too high in most of the cases.
By the way, may you tell me which are the weights that Dr Karanth quote on his book, for the tigers that he captured? I think those figures are going to be more reliable based in a resent discovery that I found about the figures published by Dr Sunquist in the book of 2002.