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    This document summarize the data about the size and weight of male and female Bengal tigers, using scientific sources and reliable old literature records. It also had a page with information about the Sauraha male, one of the heaviest tigers ever recorded by scientists.

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    Weight of the Bengal tiger

    (Panthera tigris tigris)


    Scientific and reliable hunting records
    By Ral A. Valvert L.
    Guatemala, April 2015.

    Males:
    Central Indian Landscape, India:
    Average
    Sample
    Range
    Location
    Reference
    (kg)
    size
    216
    190.5 255
    6
    Hunter, 1896.
    190.5
    160 234
    42
    Kanha NP Brander, 1923.

    197
    1
    21st Century Tiger, 2014.
    245
    240 250
    2
    Panna TR Chundawat & Malik, 2010; Pers. Comm. 2009.
    Total average: 212 kg. n=51. Range: 160 255 kg.

    Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, southwest India:


    Average
    Sample
    Range
    Location
    (kg)
    size
    217
    209 227
    3
    Nagarahole NP
    216
    206 226
    2

    224.5
    1

    Total average: 218 kg. n=6. Range: 206 227 kg.

    The Sundarbans:
    Average
    Sample
    Range
    Location
    (kg)
    size

    172
    1

    150
    1
    India
    103
    97 115
    3
    Total average: 126 kg. n=5. Range: 97 172 kg.

    Reference
    Karanth, 1993.
    Meinertzhagen, 1957.
    Hornaday, 1904.

    Reference
    Burton, 1933.
    Chattopadhyay & Banerjee, 2008.
    Mukherjee, 2011.

    Chitwan NP, Nepal:


    Average: 221 kg. n=7. Range: 184 260 kg. Reference: Smith et al., 1983; Sunquist, 1981.
    Northeast India:
    Average: 205 kg. n=44. Range: 168 236 kg. Reference: Brown, 1893; Cooch Behar, 1908.
    Kumaon-Terai, India:
    Average: 209 kg. n=16. Range: 170 259 kg. Reference: Hewett, 1938.
    Hyderabad, India:
    Average: 182 kg. n=9. Range: 150 203 kg. Reference: Burton, 1917.

    Total average: 196 kg. n=7 populations or 138 specimens.


    208 kg. n=6 populations or 133 specimens (without The Sundarbans population).

    Females:
    Central Indian Landscape, India:
    Average
    Sample
    Range
    Location
    (kg)
    size
    133.4
    122 145
    2

    131.5
    124 156
    39
    Kanha NP

    130
    1

    145
    1
    Pench TR
    117.5
    115 120
    2
    Panna TR
    Total average: 131 kg. n=45. Range: 115 156 kg.

    The Sundarbans:
    Average
    Sample
    Range
    (kg)
    size
    77.5
    75 80
    4

    109
    1

    72
    1
    Total average: 82 kg. n=6. Range: 72 109 kg.

    Reference
    Hunter, 1896.
    Brander, 1923.
    21st Century Tiger, 2014.
    Majumder et al., 2012.
    Chundawat & Malik, 2010.

    Location
    Bangladesh
    India

    Reference
    Barlow, 2009.
    Burton, 1933.
    Mukherjee, 2011.

    Chitwan NP, Nepal:


    Average: 130 kg. n=19. Range: 102 150 kg. Reference: Smith et al., 1983; Sunquist, 1981.
    Sariska NP, India:
    Average: 149 kg. n=3. Range: 135 170 kg. Reference: Sinha, 2008; Sinha, 2009; Sebastian, 2010.
    Northeast India:
    Average: 141 kg. n=11. Range: 118 163 kg. Reference: Cooch Behar, 1908.
    Kumaon-Terai, India:
    Average: 136 kg. n=8. Range: 113 157 kg. Reference: Hewett, 1938.
    Hyderabad, India:
    Average: 122.5 kg. n=11. Range: 109 150 kg. Reference: Burton, 1917.

    Total average: 127 kg. n=7 or 103 specimens.


    135 kg. n=6 populations or 97 specimens (without The Sundarbans population).
    Notes:
    The figures from Chitwan NP and those from Karanth (1993) were adjusted for stomach content (235
    kg for males and 140 kg for females, in the original figure of the Chitwan specimens).
    The population of Northeast India (Cooch Behar, 1908) doesnt include any gorged or full of beef
    specimen.
    The specimens from the Sundarbans (males and females) were not baited and most of them were
    frail, underweight in even incapable to hunt (Barlow, 2009, Mukherjee, 2011).
    Although this collection includes all the weights recorded for females (except for a specimen of 177
    kg captured in Nagarahole NP; Karanth, 1993), it doesnt includes several weights from male
    specimens in literature, because some of them dont states clearly the area where they were hunted.

    Measurements of one of the heaviest tigers captured by scientist:


    Identification: M-105, A.K.A. Sauraha male.
    Total length: 310 cm in straight line.
    Head-body length: 197 cm.
    Chest girth: 140 cm.
    Neck girth: 80 cm.
    Canines:
    o Upper pair: 6.5 cm.
    o Lower pair: 5.5 mm.
    Weight: 260 kg empty belly.
    Location: Chitwan NP, Nepal.
    Note: This male bottomed the scales used by Sunquist (1981)
    [500 lb] and Dinerstein (2009) [600 lb], it was probably baited
    during its captures. Taking in count that the actual food intake
    for Nepalese tigers in one day is between 14-19 kg (Sunquist,
    1981) and that the scale of Dr Dinerstein could be bottomed by
    5 to 10 kg, the weight empty belly for these large male was no
    less than c.260 kg. The figure of 261 kg presented by Smith et
    al. (1983) was obtained based in a chest-girth weight
    regression equation.
    Source: Dr Mel Sunquist, personal communication 2010; Dr
    Eric Dinerstein, personal communication 2009.
    Picture of tiger M105, captured in Chitwan NP. Fiona and Mel Sunquist.

    Size and weight of the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris):


    By Ral A. Valvert L.
    Guatemala, April 2015.
    The following tables present a general comparison between the different populations of tigers studied by scientists in the Indian subcontinent. In the
    case of the specimens that were captured with the baiting system, the figures presented in the tables were adjusted for stomach content.

    Table 1. Size of the male Bengal tiger.


    Males
    n
    7
    3

    Body mass (kg)


    Min.
    Max.
    184
    260
    209
    227

    197

    Sariska TR, India

    The Sundarbans

    Location
    Chitwan NP, Nepal
    Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
    Central Indian Landscape
    (Panna and Kanha)

    Total length (cm)


    Min.
    Max.
    Mean
    292
    310
    301
    289
    311
    298

    Reference

    Mean
    221
    217

    n
    2
    3

    250

    229

    Karanth, 1993; Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002.


    Chundawat, in lit., 2005; Chundawat Pers.
    Comm. 2009; 21st Century Tiger, 2014.

    220

    Sinha, 2008.

    97

    150

    115

    252

    261

    255

    Smith et al., 1983; Sunquist, 1981.

    Chattopadhyay & Banerjee, 2008; Mukherjee,


    2011.

    Table 2. Size of the female Bengal tiger.


    Females
    Location
    Chitwan, Nepal
    Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
    Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam
    Tiger Reserve
    Central Indian Landscape

    n
    19
    2

    Body mass (kg)


    Min.
    Max.
    102
    150
    102
    177

    Mean
    130
    139.5

    n
    5
    2

    Total length (cm)


    Min.
    Max.
    Mean
    251
    282
    266
    248
    260
    254

    Reference
    Smith et al., 1983; Sunquist, 1981.
    Karanth, 1993; Express News Service, 2014.

    150

    236

    115

    145

    127.5

    Chundawat, in lit., 2005; Majumder et al.,


    2012; 21st Century Tiger, 2014.

    Sariska TR, India

    135

    170

    149

    Sinha, 2008; 2009; Sebastian 2010.

    The Sundarbans

    72

    80

    76

    228

    239

    234

    (Panna, Kanha and Pench)

    Messias, 2001.

    Barlow et al., 2006; Barlow, 2009; Mukherjee,


    2011.

    The heaviest male tigers (M-105 & M-126) weighed 272 kg+ and latter estimated to weight c.260 kg empty belly (they bottomed the scale of 600 lb
    used by the scientists), and were captured in Chitwan NP, Nepal (Dinerstein, 2003; Pers. Comm. 2009); meanwhile the heaviest female (T-02)
    weighed 177 kg and was captured in the Nagarahole NP, at the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (Karanth, 1993). Based in these populations, it seems
    that the Bengal tiger have little variation in body mass in mainland, but is greater in the population of The Sundarbans. It can be calculated that the
    average weight for an adult tiger in mainland is of 222.3 kg (n=13) for the males and 136.5 kg (n=28) for the females. Sadly, all the specimens
    captured from The Sundarbans were frail, underweight and some of them incapable to hunt (Barlow, 2009, Mukherjee, 2011). Previous studies
    suggested that this last population could be a different subspecies (Barlow et al., 2010), however new evidence states that Sundarbans tigers are
    closely related with Central Indian tigers, thus they belong to this subspecies (Mukherjee, 2013).

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