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

[GuateGojira]

(08-23-2022, 10:56 PM)acutidens150 Wrote: @GuateGojira 
The length for the Siberian tiger is listed as 195 cm but is along the curves, right? So what would be a good length estimate for in a straight line? Is there a method?
Also the height of 95 cm I heard, is not the full height to the end of the paw from shoulder tip. So what would be a good full height?

In my last comparative images I use 180 cm for the head-body length, but take in count that this length is from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail. Check that hunters of lions and tigers just said "base" of the tail, but did they actually moved the tail in in 90 degrees to check the real root of the tail? We don't know sadly, but if we asume they just took until the end of the hip bone, in that case the modern Amur tigers measured "between pegs" using the method of the old hunters, it will be about 190 cm, just like the Bengal tigers. So, again, I will say that both Bengal and Amur tigers measured the same in length-height and probably also skull. The difference is in the modern figures, where Amurs are lightes with smaller chest girths.

About shoulder height, yes, those figures published are not the streched arm of the tigers, so the shoulder height straight could be a littler higher, about 1 meter and just like Bengal tigers (again). Reply