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Agreed, Guate. The male tiger killed in a fight was a very small male, if it was an adult male at all. I propose to post the article Warsaw posted as well (in the Shaggy God forum).
The points made, however, stand. I saw healthy adult male Amur tigers in captivity hardly larger than an adult female and I saw them more than once. For indirect proof, I would propose to read the table posted not so long ago on captive Amur tigers. They are there in captivity and I do not doubt they are in wild Russia as well. The reason was given and I think the 'Lazy Tiger' was a confirmation.
Maybe you can find something more in the article I referred to. It's in Russian and it's possible the machine made a mistake translating the text. Warsaw, however, got to the same conclusion: the old boy (pad width 11,0 cm.) was killed in a fight with an immature male (pad width 9,5 cm.).