New thread ideas & requests

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(08-15-2014, 11:08 AM)'Vinod' Wrote: Well I was wondering why can't we have a good healthy debate backed with tangible evidence on who's the biggest wild cat alive today, Lion or a Tiger & one on Biggest Lion & Tiger subspecie, for example many think  Amur is the biggest subspecie but in my opinion the Hassinger Tiger proves Bengal is the biggest, while the captive population tell a different story.

Hope the concerned people don't see anything wrong with it & since Guategojira is good with data he should take an initiative. Thank you.[img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

 

We can have it, there is no problem. The thing is that it will be strictly moderated, as we were going to write about "size and weight", not fighting abilities or other stuffs. So, of course, this can be made.

However, as a manner of summary, the data that peter, tigerlover, tigerluver, pckts and others, together with mine, showed that at species level, lions are larger than tigers, but this is because the variation between tigers is huge. For example, the smallest tigers were (Bali are extinct) of the size of large leopards and jaguars, weighing as low as 75 kg, while the largest tigers are larger than the largest lions, reaching up to 320 kg. As we can see, tigers have a huge range of variation (part of this influenced the large array of "subspecies" in old literature, now all invalid).

About the "Amur vs Bengal" issue, there is already a topic for it: http://wildfact.com/forum/topic-who-is-t...the-tigers

The result was that both are of the same size, but the Bengal tigers weigh more and the Amur tigers have the largest skulls overall. Both are the largest of the cats, since the extinction of the cave lions and the Pleistocene Sunda tigers.
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