Indo-Chinese and Malayan tigers

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Thanks for your words Amnon242. Since the "witch hunt" of two "posters" against me, I have received few congratulations for my posts, despite the information on them.

Here is my replay:

1. The shoulder height show that those Sundarbans tigers are relative taller, in relation with its body length, in comparison with other Bengal tigers. However the shoulder height of the second male was probably wrong (or taken from shoulder to tip of paw), as the real figure could be about c.85 cm. Interesting the largest male measured 181 cm in head-body length, which is larger than the largest Sumatran tiger that I have saw and close in size to an average mainland Bengal tiger (c.190 cm). However he only weighed 98 kg! So, you can guess how bad was its health in the moment of the capture.

2. Oh yes, Sumatran tigers are big, really big animals and very impressive. Although if we compare them with an Amur-Bengal tiger they looks small, they are still larger than any other big cat (except the lion). Remember how big looked the 148.2 kg Sumatran male "Slamet" in that picture posted here before. Interestingly, the heaviest captive male Sumatran tiger that I know is the male "Juma" with 131.4 kg from the Australia Zoo. I don't know other heavier specimen, maybe you could provide data on males of 150 kg in captivity, that will be excellent!

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*The overall frame of the tiger was like this:

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It was very large. I will scan my picture with him, so you could decide by yourselves. [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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