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03-08-2015, 06:31 AM( This post was last modified: 03-08-2015, 06:33 AM by peter )
Nice info and a great picture of a wild tiger. Many thanks, my friend.
A print with a diameter of 20 cm., according to Hoogerwerf (1970), is right at the top of the list. He saw a print of that width on hard beach sand only once and wrote a print with a diameter of 18 cm. usually corresponds with a pad width of 9-10 cm. This is similar to the pad width of a large Amur female. Male Java tigers, in this respect, might have compared to them, although I think they could have been a bit heavier. The photographs of males I saw indicate they were more robust. They most certainly had longer, wider and heavier skulls. Java tigers were not as small as many think.
I've finished the tables on Indonesian tigers. I managed to distinguish between adolescents (2-3), young adults (4-6) and mature animals (7 years and over). The differences are remarkable.
The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)
