The Java Tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica)

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Thanks @peter, it was really useful and I will follow your advice.

By the way, I believe too that skulls shrink with age. The large skull of a Bengal tiger with a size of 387 mm x 267 mm (GSL x ZW), measured by Sterndale in 1884 and presented to the Indian Museum in Calcutta, it was reported by Sclater (1891) with a size of 381 mm x 262 mm (15 x 10.3 inches).

However, other explanation could be that Sterndale measured the skull between two perpendiculars from tip to tip, while Sclater stated that the skull was measured from the premaxillae to the posterior end of the supraoccipital, probably using calipers like a norm in museums.

Any way, a difference of 5-6 mm was present. Like any biological thing, the decomposition, even at slightly level, is the norm.


This image of Rowland Ward shows how the big cat skulls are measured, showing that the silly claim of Warsaw that great cat skulls measurements are unreliable, is completely false.

*This image is copyright of its original author

Check that mandibles had nothing to do in the measurement of the GSL. By the way, the largest tiger skull actually measured by Rowland Ward in person (not those "Owner's measurements"), in this form, is a male specimen from Cooch Behar that measured 384 mm x 260 mm (Rowland Ward, 1914; 7th edition). I don't know if more recent editions had larger tiger skulls. Reply