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(10-12-2022, 02:28 AM)Garras Pardas Wrote: Eu acho que este espécime particular de 442,4 kg é equivalente a um indivíduo de 7 pés de altura e 350 libras para o moderno Homo sapiens.
It's the equivalent of a human who weighs over 500 pounds and lives from one couch to another.
The extremes of their weight, 98/442 basically demonstrate that these tigers are fed according to their utility. 98 kg for those aimed at making bone wine (from birth, present their serious problems inherent to inbreeding, spacing and inadequate nutrition), and the other extreme for visitor viewing. I would not trust any evidence from this study that demonstrates any good criteria in these establishments has a healthy life.
The captivity manufacture individuals that would starve to death two or tree weeks after being released into any good habitat for wild tigers.
Like a human who was born and raised in a penitentiary, all these tigers are monsters - biologically and socially.
"They're not tigers, they just look like..."
According to the paper, these tigers were routinely fasted for 1 - 2 days per week, which means they weren't gorged every day and were mostly fed with low calorie chickens.
All sampled specimens were described as 'healthy', so they could be slightly overweighed as we saw from most specimens in the Harbin breeding center, but not morbidly obese like those specimens described by the Guinness Record.
The 442.4 kg Amur tiger from the Harbin breeding center was undoubtedly a bigger boned specimen than the 423 kg Jaipur from the Guinness Record.
The killer Amur tiger from German zoo got a 420 - 430 mm skull as a 4 years old subadult, and there could have bigger skulls from the Harbin breeding center.