Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[GuateGojira]

(06-26-2019, 11:31 AM)Kingtheropod Wrote: @GuateGojira

My assumption was that these 26 tigers weighed, and the other 49 tigers mentioned in the other table are referring to different years. The 26 tigers represent one study period, and the other 49 tigers was a different research occasion when they got scales greater then 227 kg.


The 26 tigers they refer to in the paper is the tigers they weighed WHEN they only had a max 227 kg scale. The 49 tigers mentioned is when they got the 272 kg scales.

Keep note, that the subadult tigers mentioned in Sunquist et al 1981 and Smith et al 1983 may have become adults on their second immobilization, thus they would be included as adults on their second weighing.


I would like to mention another important thing Guate

Eric Dinerstein in his book below mentions a tiger of 560 lbs from Baghmara forest. I think this is another male!

https://books.google.ca/books?id=qYGKNKp...&q&f=false

You have a good point in mentioning that male of 560 lb+ of Baghmara. My concern is when that tiger was darted, it says that Dr Dinerstein was present, which suggest that probably was not included in the paper of the other weights of 1980. We know that other tigers were darted after the publication of that document.

 

Now, which tiger was this “Baghmara” male? Was actually M126 in the last capture? Was a completely different male? I will like to investigate a little more about this. Based in the map in page 48 of Dr McDougal, Baghmara was in the north-central part of the park, close to Lame Tal and near the southern part of the Narayani River.

I will investigate a little more about this male tiger.

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