Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(10-17-2019, 02:47 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: So this tiger is a male that managed to kill 14 cattle, but still weighed only about 170 kg (374.8 lbs)? Then how do male Bengal tigers, with the exception of those in the Sundarbans, manage to have average weights of at least 182 – 218 kg (401.2 – 480.6 lbs) with empty bellies, judging by the work of Raúl A. Valvert?

Cattle in India is small and skinny, and we don't know if the specimens killed were adult or not. Also the article says that a normal weight of a tiger is of 140 kg! So for them, the figure of 170 kg is high; that is an error because 140 kg is for a female tiger, so now I dobth that the figure of 170 kg is correct.

Also, based in the old records, some "adult" tigers reached weigths of only 150 kg or 160 kg, but those were probably subadults males, old males past they prime or simple adults in bad shape. The article says that it was a healty male, but pictures shows a lanky animal. Also we need to see if the estimation of "5 years old" is correct or not.

So, there are many problems with the report and that is why the information need to be corroborated. Reply