The size of the Barbary lion

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(01-28-2022, 08:28 PM)LonePredator Wrote: Does the same thing happen to captive Tigers too??

I have not saw a document about that, but based in the measurements of Amur tigers made by Mazák an others, if we compare the wild ones and the captive ones, there is no diferences in measurements. I don't see any remark about bone density, but if you check the wild skulls with the captive ones, it seems that captive tigers had weaked zygomatic arches than the wild ones. So, based in this small comparison, we can assume (but not conclude) that captive tigers degenerate at some point, but the difference is not as dramatic as in the lions. @peter have more information about this topic of the skulls.

In the PDF document that I attached we can see that the difference between captive and wild tigers is minimal, but that captive lions did suffer changes compared with wild lions and they suffer illness in they skull formation. Reply

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