Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(02-25-2022, 10:44 PM)SpinoRex Wrote: Yeah but sadly "empty stomach" isnt normal in weight datas. The 42 adult males from C.India werent adjusted and weighed 190.5 kg. Just like the 44 males shot by C.Behaar and the males killed in terai. Thats the reason why you have to seperate it. The only datas that adjusted their specimens in large samples were Bertram and Smuts

About the crater males i said about. Though i dont know if any cat population can reach 220 kg if unsucessfull males are included (Even those in Pillibhit and Corbett are of 170-180 even though the corbett male was a large one). Maybe in some areas but not on an empty stomach thats for sure.

Again, Brander/Cooch Behar/Hewett did included several specimens under 180 kg and those were not fully grow adults, remember that 180 kg the mark for "healthy" but still small adult males and over 200 kg is from heathy adult males. If we remouve those small specimens the average is definitelly over 210 kg. In this case, animals from Cooch Behar do not include ANY gorged or full of beef specimens, I remouve them all, you know? And those from Brander, even when they may have been gorged, the inclution of the subadults helped to balance the values. On Hewett records, there is no description about that, but he mentions that weights are unreliable if the specimen is baited so we can especulate that some of they specimens were not gorged. In fact, if you check the hunt of the tiger of 259 kg you can see that they used a macan, and that can be placed only before to place the bait. Check this interesting image:

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This suggest that not all "baited" tigers killed and ate the baits, specially if you used a macan. Or you, as a hunter, will wait until the tiger ate full to kill it, or you will shot him at the first oportunity? Logic, that all I ask in this matters. Reply