ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[peter]

This is, most unfortunately, only one page of an article written by Won (1966) called 'Some Data of Korean Tiger'. I only was able to print one page, because the computer crashed. Everything I had was largely lost.

Anyhow. This wild male tiger fell into a trap for wild boars in December 1959 in North Hamkyung Province. He was measured and weighed by Dr. Won. Apart from the long tail (97,0 cm.), the tiger, for body length (173,0 cm.), weight (142,0 kg.) and skull (320,00 mm. in greatest total length, 210,00 mm. in zygomatic width and 60,00 mm. for the upper canine (probably measured from the insertion to the tip), compares to a large adult Sumatran male tiger. The hindleg shows he might have been quite tall.

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