Shoulder height to body length ratio

[ganidat]

I am interested in the shoulder height to body length ratio of male tigers.

Because we have to do this with pictures, it won't be perfect. But if we can compare multiple pictures, then we can take the average and that should be pretty close to the true ratio.

I will start:

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For this particular picture of Bamera, I got a height to length ratio of:

56.3218391% Reply

[Pckts]

Branders 600lb Tiger had a Shoulder height that was 49.5% of its Body Length Reply

[ganidat]

(06-13-2021, 06:06 PM)Pckts Wrote: Branders 600lb Tiger had a Shoulder height that was 49.5% of its Body Length

Can you show some pictures of him?

How did they measure the shoulder heigh to body length? 
I am sure they did not use pictures to do that like here.

So I think we are comparing apples to oranges.

But still, it would be nice to see some pictures of him. Reply

[Pckts]

(06-13-2021, 08:34 PM)ganidat Wrote:

(06-13-2021, 06:06 PM)Pckts Wrote: Branders 600lb Tiger had a Shoulder height that was 49.5% of its Body Length

Can you show some pictures of him?

How did they measure the shoulder heigh to body length? 
I am sure they did not use pictures to do that like here.

So I think we are comparing apples to oranges.

But still, it would be nice to see some pictures of him.

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Brander measured everything in a straight line Reply

[ganidat]

Those stats don't make a whole lot of sense to me. 

So the girth of the body is 59 in but the girth of the forearm is 21 in. How can a tiger's body only be 3 times the girth of its forearm? Reply

[Pckts]

(06-13-2021, 08:52 PM)ganidat Wrote: Those stats don't make a whole lot of sense to me. 

So the girth of the body is 59 in but the girth of the forearm is 21 in. How can a tiger's body only be 3 times the girth of its forearm?

Girth is when they wrap the tape measure completely around the area mentioned. Human males actually show a similar girth to arm ratio as well. Reply

[JUJOMORE]

I hadn't realized this thread was already open, I'm also interested in feline body proportions in general. Actually, I think it should be included in "Modern weights and measurements  on wild tigers” because of its total relationship with body measurements
 
If we collect data in tables of measures, we should be able to analyze and locate those that may present a significant deviation in proportions. In addition, knowing only one of the fundamental measures you can obtain only with it a very approximate vision of the rest. It is the same that is done in paleontological reconstruction procedures.

For these infographics I have used the profile photos of four different male tigers, two of them well known from the Indian subspecies and two from the Amur subspecies. To make the statistics more reliable, you can use as many more photos as you want, the more the better, but the difference will not be significant.

I have drawn several lines of different colors for the different alternative measures.
    - The red and green lines are both the same length, represent the length of a dead or sedated animal fully stretched, would be the equivalent of "between pegs"
    - The blue line would be equivalent to a measure taken with a metal tape resting on the nose, forehead, shoulders, hips and tail birth.
    - The contour line over the body curves is not marked with any color. To measure it you need to help yourself with a thread that is flexible enough to follow the curves and measure it later
- The length of the tail, like the previous one, is not marked with any color, it is taken following the contour of the tail from its birth to its end with a flexible thread as in the previous case.
- The orange line represents the height, from the ground to the top of the shoulder.
 
In the examples, I have chosen the unit as the height measure, thus showing us ratios that are easier to visualize in percentage. Obviously you can use whatever you want. They would also give us the measurements in meters that these tigers would have in life if they were one meter tall.
These ratios, of course, are not exact, but it could be said very succinctly that as a rule, the length of the body will be <2 the measure of the height, the tail will measure <1 the height, and the total length will be <3 the height of the animal. Obviusly, much more can be specified, and it will be much more exact the more samples are taken.

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