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(12-19-2021, 03:39 PM)peter Wrote: According to V. Mazak ('Der Tiger', 1983, pp. 190), adult females (n=5) range between 82-88 cm, whereas adult males (n=7) range between 96-106 cm. Females exceeding 90 cm and males exceeding 110 cm at the shoulder are exceptional.
About standing shoulder height, I have this new image showing the measurements taken by Vratislav Mazák himself on several captive tigers. I focused in Indochina, Bengal, Amur and Sumatran tigers. As Mazák presented the real pictures of the largest tigers that he measured, I used them in the comparative image, and I also added the giant tiger from Duisburg with 110 cm in standing height (measured by other person). Plus, I add the smallest tiger measured by him, which is an small Sumatran tigress that is probably of the same size os the smallest Bali and Javanese tigress on record.
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Here you can get a good idea of how big is a cat of over 100 cm, and we can discard any "popular record" of lions over 120 cm in height, as this is something that was achieved only by the Pleistocene Panthera cats. A cat of 110 cm is already a big cat and is possible that the record tiger and lion of 114 cm in hunting records taken "between pegs" were about 110 cm or a little less measured in the real standing position.