Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(06-02-2022, 03:20 PM)Tiger898 Wrote: Hi guate, i have some questions to ask, i'm new here, glad to see you here 


In your opinion, who is the biggest feline in the scientific literature? 


What is the overall average weight of Bengal tigers? 

The male tiger Sauraha M105-T105 from Chitwan in Nepal had stomach contents?? in the document itself of this tiger it is said that he was "baited in the first catches" and not in the last catch where he was given 261 kg of empty belly, which in this case he exceeded the scale of 272 kg, and in this last catch he was found thanks to the radio collar, does this lead to our understanding that it was empty? What do you think

Hi, here are my answers:

1. The biggest felid in scientific litterature are the two male Nepalese tigers that weighed over 272 kg.

2. Overall average weight of Bengal tigers is of 201 kg for males and 131 kg for females, take in count that average values may change depending of the sample size and the type of specimens included.

3. We know that baiting was the normal procedure to capture tigers in Nepal, although Dr Sunquist said that none of the captured animals were found gorged. In the case of M105, certainly it was baited at the beggining, but it is possible that he was one of the tigers that were recaptured with no need of baits but using the collar signal, after all it was captured more than 3 times.

4. The value of 261 kg often quoted is just the result of a chest girht/weight equation. The figure that I propuse of 260 kg is adjusted for stomach content (14-19 kg). The real weight was over 272 kg, taken in 1979 when it died in an accident.

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