Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(04-14-2022, 08:07 AM)woshiniya Wrote: I am agree with your analysis about the length of M105，because it is almost wholy match with my thoughts and opinion on it，but I have some defferen
ce about the age，basing on my a lot of obserations the most of tiger’s nose begin to appear black point in their age about 3-4，although there are a few exceptions. We can saw the whole pinkness nose of those pictures about M105，and we need to notice the collar  on his neck in those pictures，so it must had been captured  in the shooting time. And according to the paper of Jhala，wild tiger frequently improve their length up to 3  years old，so according to the defference of 8cm that length of M105 in the first and second captured，I think M105 about 3 years old in the first captured personally.

Good point about the nose, however we need to take in count the size itself too. At 3 years old tigers are still growing and do not reach the big size that Sauraha already had, in fact, the Bengal tigers at that age (3-4 years) weighs about 200 - 220 kg based in the specimens captured by scientist and is from 4 years and beyond that they surpass the 230 kg. Check that in its first capture Sauraha already weighed over 227 kg, that suggest a big mass from an older animal, so I personally estimate that 4 years old is a good age for the Sauraha at its first capture in 1974, and his picture (showed in page 150 in Dr McDougal in his book) shows a young adult, check it:

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While the one in the front cover shows a more mature state of this magnificent male:

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However, at the end, these are just our appreciations, at the end the official documents only says "adult", so there is not to much we can do. Just for the record, one of the "adult" tigresses included in the sample was actually only 30 months when weighed, so the average of females could be more if this same tigress were weighed at a higher age. Reply