Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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Interesting point Tigerluver. I also found no evidence of a greater size or massiveness for the Wanhsien tiger, the maximum body mass that I calculated for this population was of 267 kg, based in its large dentition. This is equal than modern Amur-Bengal tiger records which range between 250-260 kg in normal maximum values.

However, the problem here is that the only long bones from the Wanhsien tiger are from small specimens, and interesting even those from Panthera youngi are even smaller! The giant skulls from that area are key to understand the size of this great cat, sadly we don't have its measurements.

About the Sunda giant femur, I believed that they were no diferent from modern tigers in proportion too, and even when the measurement method are variable, the comparative values still resemble each other. This was more reliable in the humerus comparison, which are slightly wider than modern tigers. I don't know how much bulkiness can produce those extra millimeters.
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