Amur Tigers

[peter]

CONSERVATION

Thanks for your first contribution! We hope you'll like your stay over here. 

As to your questions. Some will be answered in this thread. There's quite a bit more in the thread 'On the edge of extinction - The tiger', but that'll take a lot of reading as it's a long one. Most unfortunately, it doesn't have an index. 

At the moment, I'm working on a series of tables with detailed information about the size of the skull of a number of tiger subspecies (referring to mainland Asia only). I've been at it for quite so time now and will post the results in the tiger extinction thread in a week or so. 

If you would ask me to get to a kind of summary right now, I would politely decline. The main reason is there's a lot of individual variation in tigers, both at the level of subspecies and at the level of species. A century ago, experienced hunters, regarding the size of adult wild male Indian tigers, got to a similar conclusion. Even in a specific district, the differences in size often were considerable.   

Not so long ago, our member 'Apex Titan' posted a part of a discussion between a former keeper and a man who most probably measured and weighed dozens of wild Amur tigers. The keeper saw adult male tigers in good shape exceed 600 pounds and the last one said exceptional wild males compare. He added an average adult wild male Amur tiger today is heavier than many (including biologists) assume.

Korean tigers, also Panthera tigris altaica, were different from tigers in northwestern and northeastern China and the Russian Far East. With 'different' I'm referring to skin, ground colour, size and behaviour. There are many reasons, but they will be discussed another time. Reply