Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(03-09-2022, 12:54 AM)abhisingh7 Wrote: tigers hunted by mahraja of cooch beher were from same vegetation as we have in bhutan and buxa tiger reserve (currently no tiger in buxa tiger reserve). these tigers are among smallest mainland bengal tigers .

Cooch Behar was a kingdom in the western part of the Assam region, the habitat was like the one that we see in modern Orang or Kaziranga reserves, based in the few pictures available in the book. However, those specimens hunted in the Indian Duars are the ones that I think you are refering. Duars is a region that is exactly in the border with Bhutan.

The problem is that we don't know the exact locations of the tigers captured in Bhutan (or we will need to check the news reports again for details) and honestly I don't see that the habitat is the same as that from Assam.

Based in the records of the Maharaja, the male tigers hunted in the Duars had an average of 206 kg - n=14 (excluding 4 males full of beef) range=202-225 kg. I don't see that they are smaller than other populations from central or south India.

Edit: I checked the full list of males, including those in the text, and I included other males from the same area, with a total of 14 specimens, none of them "gorged" or "full of beef". Reply