Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(11-02-2023, 12:20 PM)melon Wrote: A male tiger from northeastern India, with a straight body length of 7 feet 5 inches (226cm) and a straight shoulder height of 47 inches (119cm)
 The contrast between tiger photos and people is huge, especially the heads!  My personal estimate is over 300 kilograms!

 Source: Brown Hunter!: (The Big Five of Indian Jungle Game, Tiger, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo and Gaur, With a Reference as Well to Himalayan Big Game

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WOOOOOOW!!!

What can I say? You nailed it! Great finding based in the few measurements we can say that this is the biggest tiger ever recorded in any part of the world. No less than 300 kg for sure. I suspect that the large male tiger of the Maharaja of Nepal was about the same size and this shows that the "total length" alone is not a good size predictor, even if taken "between pegs", because this tiger is a giant but as its tail was short, it was not included in any record book.

Thanks for sharing this information, it will go straight to the list of Bengal records right now!


By the way, it will be possible to take a better picture of the skull of this specimen? Reply