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Who is the "king" of tigers? - Bengal or Amur

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Who is the "king" of tigers? - Bengal or Amur

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05-03-2015, 11:30 PM ( This post was last modified: 05-03-2015, 11:38 PM by Amnon242 )

(05-03-2015, 11:26 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: I wouldn't say they are obese, but I would definitely say they are over weight compared to wild counterparts.
Baikal is still a mystery to me since we don't have any of his body measurements to compare him to. But whenever we compare the body measurements of verified captive specimens to wild ones they don't really differentiate.
The world record for wild amurs is 385kg or so, basically the same as baikal, pretty much. The difference is you can weigh any cative species at any time, its no problem. Very few wild specimens are weighed let a lone weighed numerous times through out the years.
We look at tons of captive amur weights and most are the average of 210kg or so, Baikal or specimens like him are the freaks, but these freaks also exist in the wild. Obviously the more tigers that are alive the more oppurtinities for the "freaks"
So it should be no surprise that as tiger #'s grow so will the "freak" specimens just like before we started hunting them to near extinction.
 

 

Ok, so no obese, but overweight. Why do you think that these tigers are overweight?

BTW please show us the "tons of captive amur weights"
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