Wanhsien tiger ~

[genao87]

Man reading Peters and Tigerluvers posts is like a shot to my heart....the size that I was expecting on average was nothing like what I imagine.   So now we cant conclude that the Wanshien was even more robust than todays tigers?   The Amur Tiger of today wasnt that much larger 35,000 years ago,  just slightly above 500 pounds/230kg.   However Pete mentioned there are still some more data to be collected involving Pleistocene Tigers.   

Kind of interesting that Tigers adapt to environmental changes faster than lions...reminds of the Wooly Mammoth where it shrunk like crazy in order to survive extinction. 

This is kind of full circle to me,  when I first heard about past Pleistocene cats,  it was calculated that they just grew only 15-25% larger...then hearing all these giants possibilities only to realize that they average not much larger and just again 15-25% compare to their modern relatives.   Who was that guy who even came up with the 15-25% to begin with anyway?

Machairodus giganteus?  Grizz,  didn't they just grew only 170kg on average?  Is that to help show that Amur's canines were very thick at least compare to other species of cats?   From your second post of canine teeth,  which ones are Tigers and which ones are Lions? Reply