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Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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04-15-2019, 09:28 PM

(04-15-2019, 11:25 AM)Sanju Wrote: What's the new body mass estimate of Ngandong Tiger (So-called "possibly" big felid on all time) on average and at max according to modern studies???

Well, actually there are only two "official" estimations published. One is the "up to 470 kg" from Hertler and Volmer in 2008, but it was using the formula of Anyonge (1993) and produce high overestimations for cats. The other is a resent figure of "up to 298 kg" also from Hertler and Volver from a document that use the formula of Christiansen and Harris of 2005. However the problem is that they only used the formula of the "length of the femur" and not also its circunference, and based in the results obtained using femurs of Smilodon, the femur-based weights are amoung the lower ones, so they are not very reliable alone (also they don't "weighted" the results).

So, no "official" figure for the moment. I still stay with my personal calculation of about 370 kg, which is realistic from my point of view, but other experts may/will disagree.
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RE: Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines - GuateGojira - 04-15-2019, 09:28 PM
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