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About Amur tigers - AlejoBravo96 - 07-11-2023
Hello everyone I hope you are well. This thread is to ask you about two discrepancies that I have found while reviewing sources regarding the Amur tiger, specifically the Amur Tiger Program and the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Land of the Leopard" which, as I understand it, work directly with the species. concerned and handle all official records of the statistics collected. The Amur Tiger Program mentions verbatim that the heaviest tiger ever captured had an impressive 384kg, so my question is this: Why don't Slaght and Valvert take that mark into account? assuming that the PTA is the highest authority in this regard. The second issue is that the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Land of the Leopard" verbatim mentions that the historical average for Amur tigers has been estimated at 220kg. So I would like to ask you if you can imagine what sources they used to arrive at such a number? since it is too far from those proposed by Slaght and Valvert, equating it directly with the average of the Bengal tiger. I am attaching screenshots from the official websites. I await your answers and thank you very much in advance.