Post by creature386 on Feb 28, 2013 21:37:06 GMT 5
I just have used google, to find the source to a table on the size of amur tigers provided by a member on carnivora and I was sent to a brandnew study on their size, showing the published weights for caught tiger specimen:
de.scribd.com/doc/55288084/BodyMass-AmurTiger-2013
It doesn't differ a lot from the old mass data I have seen in Amur Tigers (for example the average body mass is about the same, tough it seems to be slightly higher in that new study).
Here a bit older data from 2011, but roughly the same (it is by the same author and it has the same name):
img198.imageshack.us/img198/8466/amurtigersizemale2011.png
So far I think this is the newest and also likely most reliable resarch about the mass of Amur Tigers (most papers or books I see cite the weights given by Nowak in 1991).
According to blaze, the largest sciencifitically weighed Amur Tiger weighed 205 kg. The data shows one weighing 207 kg, I know, but that is still much lower than Nowak's 300 kg weight, which is almost always cited.
What do you think?
Could it be that Amur Tigers were bigger earlier (because they weren't as much endangered as today, where they are just about to vanish)?
Could it be that the 300 kg specimen is a freak specimen, like the 9t (or the even bigger ones, like the one weighing 12t) African Bush Elephant specimen?
Could it be that he has not weighed it properly or guessed it's weight? Could it have been a misquoation of older data from Russia (I haven't read his book, so I don't know where he took it from)?
Could it be that the specimen has eaten a lot before it was weighed.
Also, what do you think about the 320 kg Sunquist and Sunquist (2002) have stated? I quite often use their book as a source, for cat sizes (and of course for other things, it was my main source in my Lion profile), as IMO, it is a great book for information about wild cats.
Sorry if some of the questions were dumb, I'm not an expert here, but Vodmeister has stated 300 kg Tigers don't exist anymore, because they are almost extinct, so I would like to hear other's opinions.
References:
Raùl A. Valvert L. (2011) Morphology of the amur tiger (panthera tigris altaica)
Raùl A. Valvert L. (2013) Morphology of the amur tiger (panthera tigris altaica)
Nowak, R. M. (1991) Walker's mammals of the world.
Mel Sunquist and Fiona Sunquist (2002) Wild Cats of the world
de.scribd.com/doc/55288084/BodyMass-AmurTiger-2013
It doesn't differ a lot from the old mass data I have seen in Amur Tigers (for example the average body mass is about the same, tough it seems to be slightly higher in that new study).
Here a bit older data from 2011, but roughly the same (it is by the same author and it has the same name):
img198.imageshack.us/img198/8466/amurtigersizemale2011.png
So far I think this is the newest and also likely most reliable resarch about the mass of Amur Tigers (most papers or books I see cite the weights given by Nowak in 1991).
According to blaze, the largest sciencifitically weighed Amur Tiger weighed 205 kg. The data shows one weighing 207 kg, I know, but that is still much lower than Nowak's 300 kg weight, which is almost always cited.
What do you think?
Could it be that Amur Tigers were bigger earlier (because they weren't as much endangered as today, where they are just about to vanish)?
Could it be that the 300 kg specimen is a freak specimen, like the 9t (or the even bigger ones, like the one weighing 12t) African Bush Elephant specimen?
Could it be that he has not weighed it properly or guessed it's weight? Could it have been a misquoation of older data from Russia (I haven't read his book, so I don't know where he took it from)?
Could it be that the specimen has eaten a lot before it was weighed.
Also, what do you think about the 320 kg Sunquist and Sunquist (2002) have stated? I quite often use their book as a source, for cat sizes (and of course for other things, it was my main source in my Lion profile), as IMO, it is a great book for information about wild cats.
Sorry if some of the questions were dumb, I'm not an expert here, but Vodmeister has stated 300 kg Tigers don't exist anymore, because they are almost extinct, so I would like to hear other's opinions.
References:
Raùl A. Valvert L. (2011) Morphology of the amur tiger (panthera tigris altaica)
Raùl A. Valvert L. (2013) Morphology of the amur tiger (panthera tigris altaica)
Nowak, R. M. (1991) Walker's mammals of the world.
Mel Sunquist and Fiona Sunquist (2002) Wild Cats of the world
