Amur Tigers

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There is a false impression that Amur tigers are larger/heavier than Bengal tigers, however this is not (and has never been) the case.

Like in the topic about the King of tigers (http://wildfact.com/forum/topic-who-is-t...the-tigers ), I have show that in fact BOTH subspecies have about the same size. The differences between them are much less than between the largest lion population and the Bengal tigers. Taking in count old and modern records together, Amur tigers seems slightly longer but Bengals are slightly heavier and have larger chest girths, they seems to have the same shoulder height.

In the skull department, Amur tiger skulls are more massive overall but Bengal ones match they length and breath, so the difference is again, too small to take them apart in base of size.

So, in my conclusion, both tiger groups are of the same size and represent the pinnacle of tiger evolution in the Holocene, with large males reaching up to 3 meters long and weighing over 250 kg, like a norm. Caspian tigers are also great candidates for an equal place, but as there are too few skulls and even less body measurements and weights, it is impossible to get accurate comparisons, although the few available pictures shows that they were of the same size than the Amur and Bengal tigers.
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