Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[Vinay]

(12-02-2016, 09:34 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: If this is in fact a weighing, this makes this the largest tiger ever weighed in modern records! After a large number of big weights in modern reports we have found, I am now convinced that Bengal tigers average about 500 lbs (225 kg) in modern time. Oddly, for some reason, in historical records, the average is closer to 200 kg. Why is that you may ask? It could be because many specimens in historical records were incorrectly labelled adults, it could even be reasons that I have noted in past threads. Another reason could be that all the big tigers in India today have outcompeted all the smaller males and only the big males are breeding, for example, T-3 weighing 240 kg, is the father of all the tigers in Panna, and as a result, the offspring will inherit his size. The opposite appears to have happened with the Siberian population, which is more heavily inbred.

In populations, genetic change is more likely to occur in small populations, and because the tiger population is so small, that may explain why both Indian tiger and Siberian tigers have apparently changed so much. Siberian tigers averaged 475 lbs historically, and are now about 400-420 lb. The opposite is the case for Indians, which have over twice the population size. The average for historical Bengals is 440 lbs, and today it appears to be around 500 lb.

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Probability 1.That is the problem with naming the Cat/Tiger. See Sunder-ban tigers range in the above picture


Province   : Bengal (Today's West Bengal (One state in India)+ BANGLA-desh)
Language : Bengali
Ethnicity   : Bengali 

'Bengal' name assigned to the Tiger which lived entire India unlike Indian rhinoceros,Indian Leopard,Indian civet etc.

Why so??

So,Who is real Bengal tiger? 

Real 'Bengal province tiger' is Sunderban mangrove Tigers.They are small (Avg 110 kg),dangerous and notorious man-eaters.If 2 Sunderban tigers are included in 10 Indian Tigers weights the entire average weight decreased to 20 kg minimum.

2.May be HISTORICALLY Russian hunters lied. I saw many sites claimed historical Siberian tiger average weight was 400 Kg,but from 1980 on wards the maximum weight of Siberian Tiger by modern scientific measurement is 204 kg only.   
 
Nd almost all Indian tiger reserves in different regions measured minimum 240 kg tiger at-least once in the recent times. 

IF theory is PROVEN fake change the entire narrative .... Siberian are inbreed,all BIG tigers are hunted,they lack prey,their population decreased and what not. Reply