Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(06-29-2014, 11:26 PM)'tigerluver' Wrote: According to what I've analyzed  a few millimeters in the humerus and tibia produce significant bulkiness. But again, the captive specimens are dubious and awkward and don't well reflect their wild counterparts especially in the light of the last two studies on bone width and muscle I mentioned in my last post.

The Wahnsien skull will always taunt us.[img]images/smilies/angry.gif[/img]

And the femur, pretty much. The range of tigers is .18-.195 about in epicondylar index, and no matter what uncertainty, the femur should fall into that. 

It's interesting how across the board the older species had narrow skulls. Evolution is a bit slow here it looks like, as these cats were more like their supposed weasel-like ancestor.

 

The new Manas male got a larger head than Madla who got a skull to be around 16 inches.

I think it is very probable for the large male Pleistocene tigers to have the skull over 17 inches or even 18 inches. Reply