Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(10-09-2019, 04:52 PM)BlakeW39 Wrote: I have a few questions for some of you guys redarding big cat sizes. You all seem to be knowledgeable. While tigers, even those of India, seem to in vary greatly in size based upon region (especially in comparison to lions, which do not show great variability in size), what might be the average sizes of Bengal tigers Northern, Souther, etc. India, and how might those weights compare to those of other cats, namely lions.

Information which I have seen seem to suggest larger regions have tigers averaging close to 220kg, while smallee populations may be closer 120kg. The former is significantly larger than lions, most averaging (in South Africa) 190kg, whilst the latter seem more comparable to large jaguars.

Do tigers compare to lions in size? And how do Sundarban tigers and Sunda tigers compare in size to jaguars?

Believe me, comparing at least the biggest lions and tigers is much more complicated than that, partly as the figure of 221 kg (487 lbs) was supposed to be based on 7 male Bengal tigers in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, but it turns out that only a maximum of 4 males were captured there, as noted before, and by no means is South Africa the only place with large lions, with other Southern African countries like Namibia having large lions as well, though we don't have reliable measurements for all populations of Southern African lions, and as for the small Sumatran or Sunda tigers, they do seem to compare at least to the largest South American jaguars (though not the smaller Central or North American jaguars). Reply