Animal trainers

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Great stuff Peter, as usual.

I'm not trying to make the argument of bengals being larger than amurs in captivity or the wild or the other way around. But this trainer, Tony Hughes, has seen what he says were "pure indian tigers" which is awesome, the fact that he says they are larger than Amurs at maximum and all around the same size on average sheds quite a bit of light. We all are under the impression that Amurs are the largest in captivity, Beatty was one to say this, as well as a few others I have read and posted about. That being said, beatty, who said it, received his tigers from Roth or Proske (I always confuse the books) and he said the tigers were brought from Bengal, which very well could of been sunderban tigers or similar to them and smaller in size than compared to central and n. indian tigers who I never read about being used in circus acts. I know the book I'm speaking of, the trainer (Proske or Roth) trained both Beatty and Stark, his tigers where bought and sold throughout Europe, it wasn't till N. American Trainers started purchasing his tigers and lions that they were used in N. America, and I believe only a few were purchased then used to breed and sell throughout N. America, which I always thought was the beginning stages as to why we have so many N. American Tigers here now, and they are all so severely inbred and hybridized. Reply