Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

[GuateGojira]

(04-22-2022, 04:26 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Here is the paper from Kitchener et al. (2017), specifically the part of the tiger:

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Interetingly, when the number of lion subspecies was reduced also to only two, there was not a huge revolution like with tigers. There is no doubth that the tiger is a "political" animals and its significance is beyond the boundaries of nature and include politics and nationalisms. Quite interesting, don't you think?

I made this comparative image for fun, just to see which will be the body size of these two tiger "subspecies":

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Continental tigers include all the mainland populations, extinct and living, all the averages (measurements, weights and skulls) are "weighted" figures. The size is close to the average size of the Indochina tiger so I decided to use one specimen of this population as a surrogate, and also because genetically speacking that is the steam tiger population. Due to the huge amount of sources, I just decided to quote myself as the sources can be seen in the original overall tiger subspecies/populations comparative images.

Sunda tigers include all the available specimens of wild Sumatran and Javan tigers, female java tigers are not available and there are no measurements of Bali tigers. On the skulls, just like the mainland tigers, I made a weighted average and put the results.

So, this is just the results of all the measurements together in only two groups, but that will not reflect the variations of each population, specially in modern days where this artificial populations not only reflect morphological differences but also genetical ones.

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