Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[GrizzlyClaws]

Amur tiger upper canine; the length is 127 mm and the width is 33 mm.

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[GrizzlyClaws]

Bengal tiger lower canines; the small one is over 9 cm, and the larger one is 14 cm.

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[GrizzlyClaws]

Subadult African lioness

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[chaos]

(11-05-2015, 05:07 AM)Pckts Wrote: How do you know it is a sub adult male out of curiosity?

I find it difficult to believe an adult lions claws are smaller than a jags and cheetahs and equal to a leopards.
Common sense would support that. Reply

[GrizzlyClaws]

(11-15-2015, 03:09 AM)chaos Wrote:

(11-05-2015, 05:07 AM)Pckts Wrote: How do you know it is a sub adult male out of curiosity?

I find it difficult to believe an adult lions claws are smaller than a jags and cheetahs and equal to a leopards.
Common sense would support that.

The largest big claw I've seen belongs to a male African lion, 7 cm in the straight line. Reply

[GrizzlyClaws]

Amur tiger

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African lion

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[GrizzlyClaws]

Bengal tiger, the unfragmented canine is about 158 mm, and the claw is close to 80 mm.

This claw is now the largest big cat claw I've seen.

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[GrizzlyClaws]

The specimen Hpl-6 from the Etosha National Park.

The upper right canine 56 mm and 54 mm, the lower canine 45 mm with the other one missing.

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[GrizzlyClaws]

A massive 13 cm lion fang from the University of California.

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[Counter]

(11-15-2015, 03:45 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:

(11-15-2015, 03:09 AM)chaos Wrote:

(11-05-2015, 05:07 AM)Pckts Wrote: How do you know it is a sub adult male out of curiosity?

I find it difficult to believe an adult lions claws are smaller than a jags and cheetahs and equal to a leopards.
Common sense would support that.

The largest big claw I've seen belongs to a male African lion, 7 cm in the straight line.




That's interesting I thought the tigers claws were a little longer. 

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[GrizzlyClaws]

@Counter, now the new largest big cat claw that I've seen belongs to a Bengal tiger, just check the post #128. Reply

[GrizzlyClaws]

A captive male lion.

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[Polar]

(12-31-2015, 01:49 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: A captive male lion.

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He's got some nice-sized canines for a modern lion, jeez!

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[GrizzlyClaws]

Yep, it looks like a large captive male, but too bad the big cats are overpopulated in the captivity of the US and China, and that's why their body parts were ended up selling to the taxidermists and ivory collectors. Reply