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09-15-2016, 05:26 AM( This post was last modified: 09-15-2016, 05:57 AM by peter )
A FEW PICTURES OF LION AND TIGER SKULLS
Tigerluver lost a photograph of a skull of a Javan tiger and asked for a new one. I decided to post a few more in order to enable a comparison. As I'm renovating the house and lost view of what is where, I'm unable to provide details.
Remember the photographs are not up to scale, so don't try to get to conclusions on size. The photographs are not about size, but about the features typical for the two species and the different tiger subspecies. It also is about the difference between skulls of captive big cats and skulls of wild big cats. Wild big cats usually have slightly longer, more elevated and more dense skulls and much larger teeth. Uppercaninewise, the difference often is significant.
Of those I measured, the lion skull (no. 06) was the longest (greatest total length), whereas the skull of the wild male Indian tiger (no. 05), slightly shorter, was the widest. It also was the most robust. The skull of the wild male Amur tiger (no. 08) was a bit longer than the skull of the lion (no. 06).
The post is finished with a few comparisons posted before. Here we go: