ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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Roflcopters
I seen many people exaggerated assam tiger in wildfact or other places by posting the same stuffs. Some people keep posting comparising chart, it is actually different when you see them in real life. Some people are writing tiger like Wagdoh, Jay, and Madla won't able to match against any male tigers in assam. Some people viewing assam/terai tiger as large and strong as the prehistoric Smilodon populator and American lion. Some people are even saying nonsense like assam tiger can take down indian rhino and asiatic elephant easily by 1 vs 1 match. People extremely overrating assam/terai tiger, so I highly doubt trusting assam tiger mentioning here. There is one phd biology student in my university from assam state, but he doesn't believe tiger in assam is bigger than the Siberian tiger (his belief doesn't change anything though).


Is there any reliable size record in assam tigers by biologist, especially these days? We don't even know exact weight, length, height of tiger like Wagdoh. I seen peter posted size charts of terai tiger from early 1900s. 

I remember I read it from some discussions in wildfact. I agree with one person said if they were a real biggest one, then it should have already been changed in a journal long time ago. 

Another thing is that there are plenty large prey animals in Assam unlike many other areas today: indian rhino, gaur, water buffalo, and other large animals. These animals, especially rhino was wide spread entire north India. And other large animal was once highly overpopulated in entire India and Asia. I am sure you could find many places that were the same as assam in other parts of india before 1850s. Sumatran rhino and javan rhino was also occurred in eastern India as well. Especially, many people here just view as weight to determine which one is larger. If you relocated assam and terai tigers to northeastern Asia and their size will be different after 2nd generations. Assam tiger would never grow that big and heavy size as in their habitat if you relocate them in a place where prey is totally depleted. Reply