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(12-17-2020, 11:51 PM)Shadow Wrote: I have looked around a bit to see different kind of comparison pictures and some are even misleading, imo. Like one which I saw quite recently had a polar bear scaled to be the biggest possible with a tiger scaled to be average.
I made this comparison photo just for curiosity to see what it looks like to have one around average polar bear, what comes to the shoulder height in comparison with around average tiger. This photo below is scaled so, that polar bear is with approximately 140 cm shoulder height, while tiger 100 cm. It can be debated for sure what are average measurements of a polar bear, but main idea is to have a comparison in which neither one is the biggest possible.
Polar bear walks in the snow and I tried to take it into account in measurement. When looking at nose to rump body length tiger is around 190 cm, maybe a bit more and polar bear seems to be around 240-260 cm, so I think that this comparison photo is quite fair considering it, that it´s difficult to find good photos to use so, that both animals would be close to same posture.
*This image is copyright of its original author
I forgot to put this in that earlier posting to show the points I used. Both photos are scaled based on shoulder heights while keeping original body proportions untouched.