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

[peter]

(11-19-2018, 07:42 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(11-15-2018, 12:51 PM)johnny rex Wrote: Are you sure the greatest skull length and head length are correlated, @GuateGojira ? If I'm not mistaken, there is only little difference between head length and greatest total skull length. But the head length of these two tigers is almost two inches larger than their greatest total skull length. Weird.

I don't remember that I ever found a relation between head length and skull length. I thing that there is no direct correlation, because there are tigers with more skin and flesh in the head than others, just like you can see in the table.

@peter once said that there are diferent morphotypes of captive Amur tigers, some with small heads and long bodies and other with smaller bodies and larger heads, some are lower to the shourder and fat while others are very tall and lanky. In the table that I made it seems that the observation of @peter is correct.

When going over your quite famous Amur tiger table once more I noticed a typo, my friend: the head length of male tiger 'Amur' from the Prague zoo wasn't 41 cm., but 45 cm. ('Der Tiger', V. Mazak, 3th edition, 1983, pp. 186-187). The head length of his son 'Benjamin', who died at age 7 in the same zoo, was 42 cm.

Here's a bit more about both tigers ('Der Tiger', 1983, pp. 185, 193). From left to right head and body length ('between pegs') - total length ('between pegs') - head length - greatest total skull length - condylobasal length - zygomatic width - rostrum width:

1 - 220 cm. - 319 cm. - 450 cm. - 371 mm. - 322,5 mm. - 261 mm. - 111 mm. ('Amur', 11 years of age, wild caught)

2 - 201 cm. - 298 cm. - 420 cm. - 377 mm. - 331,2 mm. - 242 mm. - 108 mm. ('Benjamin', 7 years of age, captive born)

Although his father 'Amur' had a longer head (450 vs. 420 cm.), 'Benjamin' had a longer skull. Reply