Freak Specimens

[Apollo]

(06-24-2014, 10:52 PM)'Roflcopters' Wrote: I remember reading an article about Harbin Park Tigers a few years back and it stated that there wasn't a single adult male in the facility that weighed less than 500 pounds. if only i could find that article now. 

 

Quoting Tiger Lover

"Perrault, If 50 individuals are not enough to avoid inbreeding and maintain genetic diversity, then most of the Bengal tigers already suffer from inbreeding. Bengals bounced back from dozen individuals in many fragmented parks. But, it seems inbreeding doesn't seem to affect Bengal tigers much, at least for now. As for Global warming, Harbin breeding park is not far from Sikhote-Alin, yet according to Raphael Amur tigers average around 550 lb in this park, many are over 700,800lbs. So, I think most possible reason for Amur tiger size reduction from limited specimens, is pathetically low prey density. According to Dale Miquelle, Tiger's usual prey is being hunted to extinction, so the tigers resort to feeding on domestic livestocks."

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