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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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04-22-2014, 02:14 AM ( This post was last modified: 04-22-2014, 02:19 AM by GrizzlyClaws )

(04-22-2014, 01:58 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote:
(04-22-2014, 01:12 AM)'GrizzlyClaws' Wrote: Yep, those giant specimens of Panthera spelaea/fossilis got the upper canines around 7.5cm from the skull (no less than 45cm), while Madla as a modern big cat got larger upper canines than those prehistoric big cats, then his skull has a good chance of being in the 40cm league.

 
Yes, I am sure that Madla had a large skull length, and taking in count that there are several male skulls of up to 400 cm, I think that Madla skull was no smaller that this figure.
 
I think that some modern wild Amur tigers do reach a similar sized canines just like that from Bengals. For example, the large Chanwangshai skull (16 in - 406 mm in GSL) had upper canines of 3 inches (7.6 cm), which means no less than 7 cm in the gum line. This is similar to the Madla male. I can guess that about 7 cm (to the gum line) is the normal maximum length for an upper canine in the Bengal and Amur tigers, over this figures, there will be exceptionally large specimens, at least in the wild.
 

 

I think this sub-fossil upper canine is similar to that of Madla, it is 82-83mm from the skull and 155mm in the total length.


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(04-22-2014, 02:13 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: Great stuff Guate. Very interesting picture of madlas teeth as well.
I watched Indian Jungles :the tiger, documentory last night. I forgot how much footage of old prime waghdoh they had, he is just a massive beast. There is a part in the documentory where he and a female are coming out of a lake and walking side by side, man waghdoh's head is just absolutely monstrous compared to hers. He also has more of a box shaped head to him, I wonder what a tiger like that would have in terms of skull weight, length and width, compared to the massive but longer skulls of the Kaziranga tigers.

 

Here is my own speculation.

Now it is quite safe to assume that Madla got 16 inches skull and 6 inches canines, and the Kaziranga monsters could have 17 inches skull and 7 inches canines assuming if they are another league above Madla.
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