Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(04-15-2022, 12:08 AM)Pckts Wrote: I've always been curious how this male weighed so much in comparison to Branders Tiger. He's pretty much outsized in every department that is registered in both. I wish we knew shoulder height and forearm girth for the Sauraha male and neck girth for Branders. But regardless, this male is a bit smaller than Branders.

I made a draw to compare the two cats, following they measurements and descriptions and I can asure you that the differences are not as dramatic as we think. In fact, following the idea that Sauraha male was bigger when he weighed 272 kg+, is possible that the differences that we can see in the draw were actally even smaller. Also, even when Brander estimated his big tiger at 600 lb, remember that the figure are just that, an estimations, just like Kirby estimated his largest lion (and the largest lion in history, by the way) at only "over 500 lb"!

Definitelly the tiger of Brander was bigger than just 600 lb, smaller males reached bigger weights, and thanks to the giant Nepalese tiger, we know that an "empty belly" tiger can weight up to 290 - 300 kg at maximum. Reply