Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(01-27-2022, 10:36 PM)SpinoRex Wrote: Also i was asking is the weight of c.260 kg is really just a estimate? Whats the number in Smith table... isnt it a actual weight? I would appreciate it if you can enlighten me in that regard.

This it the thing, the real weight of the two males from Nepal was over 272 kg as they bottomed the scale of 600 lb used by Dr Dave Smith. Sunquist used an scale of only 500 lb when he worked with male M-105, but tak in count that male M-126 was not weighed by Sunquist but by Smith. So there are two males of over 272 kg.

Now, Dr Smith made a chest girth-weight equation and got to the calculation of 261 kg for the biggest males and that is the figure that you can see in the table of Smith et al. (1983) and that is often quoted in other books. However is a calculation, not the real weight.

From my part, using the method that I explained to you, I got that the minimum weight for these two large males was of 260 kg emtpy, which is very very close to the calculation of Smith.

So, at the end, the real weight is 272+ kg, the calculated weight is 261 kg for both males, and the used figure of 260 kg is based in al this. Reply