Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(07-02-2022, 02:35 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(07-01-2022, 10:14 PM)LonePredator Wrote: Hello @GuateGojira, could you tell at which locations were the top 5 heaviest Amur Tiger specimens found? Including the reliable 300kg ones and also the 254kg one.

And in your data about Amurs, you mentioned that you subtracted 20cm to convert over curves to between pegs but don’t you think this might overestimate the length of big Tigers and underestimate the length of smaller Tigers?

Thanks!

Yes I can. But there is no male of 300 kg acepted as "reliable" in the Amur region.

1. 254 kg - Trans-Amur region.
2. 250 kg "evicerated" (could be c.270 kg "intact") - No location specified.
3. 249.5 kg - Bikin, Ussuri region.
4. 227 kg - North Kirin, Manchuria.
5. 224 kg - Manchuria.

There is the case of the male of 325 kg reported from Kirin province (northeast China) that is still in doubt. The problem is that Slagth et al. (2005) found that record from a French translation (1938) of the original document (1929), and when they checked and English translation (1936) they found that the weight was not mentioned there. So, as they could not found the original document from Baikov of 1929 (the one that was used by Heptner & Sludskii), they leave it as "unreliable".


The correction of 20 cm was proposed by Mazák and is only for the biggest males. If you check in my old tables from 2015 (which needs an update, by the way), only two males were corrected and both were over 325 cm, and both males were not included in the average figure. No other male was adjusted in my tables.

Hi Guate,
Are the tiger actually considered into two subspecies (Panthera Tigris Tigris on the mainland and Panthera Tigris Sondaica on the islands) or are they distributed into 5/6 subspecies? I'm asking because I've read many papers that had opposing views. Reply