Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(07-18-2022, 03:21 AM)GreenForest Wrote:

(07-13-2022, 01:18 AM)Khan85 Wrote: Some large tigers of 21st century.

Wikipedia weights, newspaper weights are not reliable. Only peer reviewed, published weights are reliable. Other than nepal chitwan, panna, nagarhole tiger weights, others in your list are not reliable.

Opinions will differ greatly, of course.  I also have my doubts about a few individuals in this list. 

There is something like personal communication (sometimes it can be a video or whatever, but this is not the general case) with some individuals. This can be stamped as "trustworthy". Of course it also depends on the person who publishes this communication. As a scientist you could quote them in your text and then publish these weights. 

Example:
"5 males weighed around 235 kg, the heaviest of them around 240 kg and their last meal was 2 days ago. (X, personal communication, date) "

In personal communications, personal communications were also cited to me. Whether your scientific paper is approved by a peer certainly does not depend on it unless you misquote and misinterpret the personal communication with the respective person. They will then most likely report it (or otherwise).  In order to have a paper peer reviewed, it is not your work (field) or education that is important, but rather what you have written in this paper. Reply