Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(04-28-2022, 11:24 PM)LonePredator Wrote: Wasn’t Sauraha’s weight actually estimated from a chest-girth equation? I don’t remember very well but I think some specimen’s weight was determined like this.

Anyway, I think I actually saw one of your graphic about these largest Tigers and Lions. Sorry I forgot about it but after seeing this I remembered that I have seen these weights.

I’m sure there must’ve been more 300kg specimens but not many were weighed and there were also many fake weights floating around which certainly made people more sceptical about these weights and rightly so.

Plus the weights of North Indian Tigers are so few in historical records. All we have are lengths and that too total lengths. Only if we had more historical weights from Northern India.

The real weight of the Sauraha male/M105 was over 600 lb (272 kg+) as that was the maximum capacity of the scale available. The weight of 261 kg was obtained via a chest girth/weight equation and I got the figure of 260 kg when I adjusted its weight (assuming that was baited in its last capture). The same happen with the male M126.

Probably many other specimens were of about 300 kg, but hunters mostly mreasured total length, in some cases head-body and height, and rarely carried scales.

Total length was not a good estimator of size, but sadly that is all what many hunters recorded in the past. Reply