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

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(07-30-2018, 09:56 AM)peter Wrote: Skulls of captive big cats are offered on different sites. This is one of them: https://www.sideshowtoy.com/collectibles...&archive=y. At the bottom of the page, you'll find the details of that particular skull (length, width, height and weight). 

Another biologist, also a conservator, informed me about the skull of a lioness he had added to the collection. The 'lioness' had been shot somewhere in Africa after she had attacked and killed a man a long time ago. He wanted it determinated to be sure. When I told him it was the skull of a youngish male polar bear, he refused to pay.

I was saving for one of those replica skulls from boneclones, and I asked a zoologist his opinion on their products, he told me that if I just wanted something to put on my shelf for decoration it was ok, but that if I was looking to use it in a scientific study it wasn't really useful. Guess that isn't important for most people.

That guy that wasn't even able to distinguish a feline skull from a bear's sounds shady and like some major fraud.

(07-30-2018, 10:27 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Amur tiger is notorious with his untolerance and animosity towards timber wolves.

I have read too that Amur tigers limit the number of wolves in the Far East. In Mammals of the Soviet Union it's claimed that wolves would often attempt to kill several animals during a hunt, and if that is the case that would exacerbate the friction between competitors for a limited source of food, but don't know how that info has hold up to this day. Reply