Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[LonePredator]

(10-20-2022, 09:42 PM)JUJOMORE Wrote:

(10-20-2022, 11:21 AM)LonePredator Wrote: Simply put, this picture is taken in a completely different pose while Wagdoh’s body measurements were taken in a completely different pose which is why this picture will not scale according to his measurements.

And the measurements can’t be neglected or denied just by looking at a picture scaling like the one above.

However, it’s still a good way to get a rough visual feel of the sheer size of the specimen.

I know, I know, and I agree. I was the first to alert that a photograph cannot replace a tape measure. The infographic is only intended to give an approximate image of what it would appear in life.

But, despite all that, a shoulder height of 101 cm is not compatible with a body length of 207 cm, that rather corresponds to an animal of approx. 190 cm, the proportions are constant, with a certain margin of error, in living beings.
 
You can contrast what I say by looking, for example, at the infographics presented by Guate on pages 1 an 25 of this same topic to see the proportions. Even so, it is totally true that there are animals with bodies proportionally somewhat shorter or longer than others, but from a certain limit an obvious distortion occurs. Wagdoh was a large, bulky tiger but did not appear to be very long.
 
I enclose another infographic, with the image of the original photograph and another one distorted to adjust the height while maintaining the length. Which one do you think is more real?

*This image is copyright of its original author

Maybe robably because the thickness of the heel pad is excluded and the height is only taken from shoulder to the heel or many other possibilities. But there’s no reason to question official measurements by looking a picture of an animal.

In one of your previous posts, you yourself posted a collection of measurements of male Tigers from Nepal where many male Tigers are 215cm (probably around 205 between pegs) and the height is only 100cm.

Ramsay Tiger was also over 230cm in HBL (between pegs) but the height was only 110cm. Some Brander and Cooch Behar Tigers also were long in bodylength but short in shoulder height.

All these records aren’t fake, are they? There’s a lot of factors that could be involved and you can’t deny official measurements by looking at pictures and editing them around. Reply