Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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Cage speculation is fine but just to give you guys an idea of what a real Tiger's shoulder height would be... 

No Tiger has ever measured 48'' at the shoulder and generally speaking the average of a good sized Male Tiger at the shoulder if measured properly is going to start at 3'.
42'' Shoulder height is very tall for a big cat, we're talking about the top 1% of any Lion or Tiger. 
The 114cm/44'' mark which is said to the maximum Tiger height was also measured over the curves if I'm remembering correctly. So realistically like with most other categories, it's Brander's giant Tiger that probably tops the list in shoulder height or at least very close.  

My guess in regards to size, no Tiger is going to outweigh the Kaziranga Cats overall.  Body dimension is very hard to determine but at least when looking at their Skulls, they do seem to possess the largest Skulls of any Tiger population I've seen and generally speaking a Large skull belongs to a big cat. Obviously not the only correlation but still a good one. Reply