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

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

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04-04-2017, 03:42 AM

(02-28-2017, 12:59 PM)Master Chief Wrote:  When I asked to my zoology professor and PhD students about this (Bengal is the larger than Amur). Their reactions were all like "what are you talking about?" "I don't believe you. Amur tiger was bigger than Bengal in zoo"

Yes, I agree that captive Amur tigers look larger, but in the wild Bengal tigers are heavier due to more abundant prey base. By genotype Siberian tiger is larger, by phenotype Bengal is larger. If you feed the two cats EQUALLY Siberian will get larger, the problem is that Siberian tigers in the northern forests never, not now and not in the past have had prey base even nearly equal to prey base of Indian tigers. In same time I am sure that if you introduce Amur tigers in Kaziranga or Kanha and they don't die of overheating.... they would get even more massive than Kaziranga tigers.
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