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04-04-2017, 08:18 AM( This post was last modified: 04-04-2017, 09:15 PM by Pckts )
Maybe so, are we able to determine which time frame the small number of Amur body dimensions are from?
If they are from the past then it really won't matter, if they're more recent then there is an argument I'm sure.
But if we are looking at examples of human beings, there is no correlation between poor and wealthy countries and their heights, it's more to do with their genetics.
With insular dwarfism, my understanding is that it's the small land mass that cause their rapid shrinkage in size where an Amur tiger has/had some of the largest available territories and thus they should be larger at least when their prey was more abundant. Also on islands, it's an advantage to be smaller since the food periodically declines and the smaller animals need less resources.