Prime Male Bengal Tiger

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A footage of one of dominant tigers in the central India（It's almost certainly the legendary "Konda" of the Kanha meadows). Reminds one of some huge prehistoric tigers!
Narrated by the foremost wild tiger expert, Dr.Valmik Thapar.

Konda arguably was up there with "Bamera male(Shashi)" of Bandhavgarh ,"Waghdoh male" and "Yeda Anna" of Tadoba, "Hairyfoot" of Panna and "T-16" of the far east Russia ...etc, to form the largest wild big cat individuals that we could find in very recent times, probably weighing nearly as much as record holding tigers of the past. Having said that, wild tiger individuals as big or even bigger than those star tigers may easily be found in national parks of Assam (Kaziranga, Orang, Manas) and Nepal where the average weight for tigers hits the highest according to some researchers.

Konda by the way, is already dead though.

I don't own this.

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[GuccivsArmani]

biggest male tiger

[IBroLLyISePhIrOtH]

that bengal is huuuge

[Youngdrizzle90]

@Junde801 (sure)*it was just a statement*'

not at a competitive point of view 

[Junde801]

@Youngdrizzle90

Dont start this.. Just enjoy these both animals while we still can.

[Youngdrizzle90]

no lion would dare mess with this dude.lol

[annespics4u]

absolutely spectacular animal, we must save these precious cats!

[MyBuntysharma]

his paws look wider than those tyre tracks

[jagroar8309]

Panna's Madhla & Hairyfoot were just randomly spotted out of very very few remaining tigers there and featured in a documentary just several years before Panna tigers went completely extinct. And both showed impressive sizes. Bamera male & some other dominant representatives from nature reserves of more favorable conditions, not to mention Assam specimens do look larger and more heavily constituted(almost like scaled up version of super robust pantanal jaguars) than big Madhla.

[asianbuffalo]

leads me to speculate that Konda, under the same conditions as the 857lbs huge male(i.e. full belly), would very possibly, make it to 390-400 kg;he's a titan. Huge tigers have been found in Kanha(skin 4.2m long, scratch mark 2.7m off the ground on trees). In fact, that lions of 270-280kg have been found in the last few decades only substantiates the fact that 365-400kg tigers do exist in the wild. Some Kazi tigers are likely 400kg and then some,there's a pic of one that looks like s small rhino.

[asianbuffalo]

a 152-160cm chest. Thus, Madla can easily weigh 320-330kg, or even more.Take B2, he's said to be 302kg.His son Bamera dwarfs him with his massive muscular figures, Bamera is easily as big as Madla.And Konda of Kanha is 11'3'' long, said to be 1 foot longer than B2,& is definitely like Bamera in built; so he easily has 60-80kg on B2. Konda's length is 20cm longer than the 857lbs tiger killed in 1967.Looking at his massive build, and compare him to Sheer Khan, a 850lbs fat captive tigers...

[asianbuffalo]

and see how large they could potentially become. In fact, I believe the biggest of the current Bengal tigers have already surpassed their ancient record-holding predecessor. Take the Sauraha male, 140cm chest girth,80cm neck girth, 310cm total length, and bottomed a 272kg scale easily. Another Nepal male, 75cm neck, 127cm chest girth, 292cm length, weighed 200 kg, a difference of at least 272 kg. Madla has a 90cm neck girth, and proportionally big muscular chest, so one could easily assume...