ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[tigerluver]

A tidbit on the Nepal weights. 261 kg is not literally a correction for food intake, as we'll never know that due to the scale's capacity. It's a best estimate based on regression of about r^2=.80-.90 (quite enough room for variability).

And I guess it's time for some exciting news I've held for a while. We know M105 and M026 being the 270 kg exceeding specimens. M026 initially was not 270 kg in his first weighing for the Nepal document giving the average of 235 kg. 4 years later Dr. Dinerstein's massed him, this time exceeding 270 kg. Well, during my research for a better database of regression, I found out there were two more males in Nepal during the Smithsonian project that were Sauraha's size, give or take, 270+ kg. Off the top of my head when I was putting together the data, the new Chitwan average was 246 kg. Reply