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

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Credited to Chinese poster 'goodhope683'.

Here's a interview with wildlife biologist & field researcher 'Feng Limin', confirming the weight of a very large wild male Amur tiger weighing over 250 kg!

About 15-20 seconds into the video, Limin states: "The largest male Amur tiger I know of and have come into contact with weighs over 250 kg."

Here's another huge male tiger with a massive skull, from Hunchun Nature Reserve in Northeast China:

Recent camera trap photos and videos from Northeast China are frequently capturing some really large and very powerfully built male Amur tigers. The young adolescent wild male tiger aged 3 years old recently captured in Northeast China for attacking a villager and smashing in a car window, weighed (confirmed) 225 kg as a immature male, when fully-grown, its possible that this young male tiger could weigh 250+kg.

This indicates that Northeast China is producing some of the largest wild male Amur tigers in the world today, along with the huge male tigers from the Khabarovsk region in the Russian Far East. Amur tigers in these regions seem to definitely rival the biggest male Bengal tigers. 

Except that wild Amur tigers usually have a more massive skull, larger canines and larger paws than Bengal tigers. Reply