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

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peter


One problem is that not every places in the Manchuria has a plain. Southern Manchuria (especially the boarder of the Korean peninsula) has many mountain and center of the Manchuria looks like a plain which is suitable for giant tiger like in Assam.

I think many records of the Siberian tigers from Manchuria by old hunters and naturalists like Yankovsky and Baikov were from the southern Manchuria and Russian Far East. I don't know many size record books of the Siberian tiger in Manchuria besides Yankovsky, Baikov, Korean hunters, and Mazak. Just read a paper written by Mazak, and he wrote the 306.5 kg Siberian tiger is the heaviest Siberian tiger. He also wrote the giant Siberian tiger in Manchuria caught by Yankovsky and Korean hunter was no less than 300 kg, but looks like Mazak didn't gave him as the heaviest Siberian tiger. Old Korean hunters also mentioned the Manchurian tigers were definitely larger than the Korean tigers, but the Korean tigers were known as exceedingly ferocious and more dangerous.


And about a few Siberian tiger from Manchuria descent in Eastern European zoos. Are they pure Siberian tiger? I hope they are not hybrid tiger subspecies. I don't know the ancestor of the Siberian tigers in Harbin. It may have been the central part of the Manchuria (Heilongjiang) was the best place for the Siberian tiger.
And what are the sizes of the two Siberian tigers bigger than 1911 male tiger in 1911 near the Russian-Korean border from Baikov's reports? Is it that the Great Van tiger who was 390 cm long? I think this tiger named Great Van was probably oversized.
And who were the other people hunted the Siberian tigers who were the same size as the Korean hunter/Yankovsky's tiger in Sungari river in Manchruia, and their tiger size? Reply