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Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(11-08-2018, 11:54 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: Tiger from Bhutan weighing 170 kg.


http://www.kuenselonline.com/tiger-colla...-zhemgang/

This male tiger and other two females of 110 kg and 160 kg each (link: https://borneobulletin.com.bn/bhutan-con...esa-tiger/) are the first weights reported from Bhutan. The figures shows animals of normal size, and somehow remind me when the first weights from Amur tigers started to arise. Take in count that the weight of 160 kg includes, apparently, stomach content.

Now, while I am going to focus in these three figures in order to get corroboration of them, I have doubts about all the other figures of measurements and weights presented here. In an old post @Dr Panthera said something very important: most of these "modern" weights are not corroborated by scientists in a document, they are only reports in news papers, webpages or even facebook conversations, which decrease its credibility.

I don't want to play like a "devil's advocate", but I think that @Dr Panthera has a point here. So, for the moment, I will focus only in the published measurements and weights, and those confirmed to me with emails. I suggest to all posters to try to corroborate the figures from the news trough emails, or at least try to search published documents in other languages (just like I fount the size and weights of modern Indochinese tigers in a document writen in Thai).

It is only my suggestion, for the moment I will try to corroborate these 3 weights from Bhutan and also the weights from the adult animals (2 males and 2 females) radiocollared in Kanha, that apparently bottomed the scales of 500 lb used (according with some Facebook communications posted in this topic).

Greetings.
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RE: Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers - GuateGojira - 11-09-2018, 09:05 AM
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