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07-03-2014, 01:59 AM( This post was last modified: 07-03-2014, 02:00 AM by tigerluver )
320 kg is probably where the road ends for modern tigers. 340 kg could appear in Kaziranga for the freakish of freaks seeing as the 389 kg (albeit with a buffalo calf in its stomach) was confirmed.
Amurs are the most interesting case. The wild specimens are as lanky as lions. Hunting records have shows 320 kg cats. We even have a fit 386 kg specimen alive right now. My theory is that modern Amur are quite inbred seeing that the current population are the successors of only 20-30 individuals. Probability that this remnant population housed the genes of the giant Amurs is slim to none, on top of the fact that inbreeding causes a reduction in size anyhow.