Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[Pckts]

(10-13-2022, 01:42 AM)abhisingh7 Wrote:

(10-13-2022, 12:49 AM)Pckts Wrote: Forty years among the Wild Animals of India
By F.C. Hicks

"However, here goes : — Except a few freaks of nature, such as men nine feet in height, and as rare, I do not believe there are any tigers in India who, fairly measured, are more than eleven feet in length from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail between pegs and before the skin has been removed from the body. So, in my opinion, those who say they have shot tigers which, thus measured, exceeded eleven feet in length, are either drawing the long-bow or have shot one of these extraordinary "freaks of nature " to which I have referred."

"It is a curious fact, which I have frequently noticed, that wild animals appear soon to differentiate between a fat and lazy old cattle- lifting tiger that is comparatively harmless as far as they themselves are concerned, and a lithe and active game-killing tiger whose creep- ing presence in their neighbourhood they dread. A cattle-lifter they do not appear to mind one little bit, but seem rather to enjoy mobbing him in turn all over the jungles ; but when an active game-killer has been in a certain bit of jungle for two or three days, it will often be found that that jungle is as silent and deserted, as far as four-footed animals are concerned, as if a pack of jungle-dogs had been at work in it for a week."

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think would probably be something like 18'' against 12'' of the Khara Tigers foot."

https://archive.org/details/FortyYearsAm...7/mode/2up


I'll continue to relevant info as I find it. Link should work for all, and it's a good read.

His first Tiger

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75 inch or 190cm girth? .

I assume he's referring to abdominal measurements. Reply