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Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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( This post was last modified: 12-20-2018, 08:30 AM by Rishi )

(12-19-2018, 03:34 PM)Panther Wrote: I don't think 4 year old tiger is fully grown, where that is when they reach sexual maturity.

What would be the average, if the tigers are at the age class of 6-7years? I guess it'd be 250-270kgs. But assumptions are assumptions, no one believes.

Can you please make a chart based on 6-7 year old males @GuateGojira? I think you have enough information to make it!

In fact, the document of Y. V. Jhala & A. Sadhu "Supplement Appendix 1: Field Guide for Aging Tigers" from 2017 states this:
* Cubs (<12 months)
* Juveniles (1 to 2 years)
* Sub-adults (>2 to 3 years)
* Young-adults (>3 to 5 years)
* Prime-adults (>5 to 10 years)
* Old-adults (>10 years)

So this is, for the moment, the better guide to age tigers. The scientists from the Siberian Tiger Project (USA) included all the specimens over 3 years old as "adults", but its list includes those that were clearly not fully grow and some were even in bad conditions, that is why they got an average of only 176 kg. My average of 190 kg includes the males from The Amur Tiger Programme (Russian) too and although it still includes some males of over 3 years old (following the STP protocol) it excludes the unhealty males. Now if we take only the males over 5 years old, certainly the average will be slightly higher.

Creating a table of "only specimens over 6 years old" is complicate, mostly because some of the weights are just labeled as "adults" and do not state its age. Is posible to do it, but will have a little of assumption on it.
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