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

[Sanju]

(03-23-2019, 09:14 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Tigers are super flexible in term of size, and they won't need to be supersized again when there is no other megafauna in the ecosystems, same with lions.

Yeah I said the same.

(03-23-2019, 09:14 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: During transitional period between the Pleistocene and Holocene, the megafauna population was already in decline, but some tiger population still managed to be the largest contemporary felines, maybe this was due the lack of competition, so tiger's size wasn't affected yet.

Yes, like Bengal, Caspian and Amur. I think this is due to prey adaptation of south china and indo chinese tigers in areas of south east asia and India having guars, rhinos, tapirs and elephants etc.., which are still mega fauna to again regain size. In case of Siberia, it has wild boar, MOOSE and reindeer which are big prey supplements. Caspain region too has some big prey.

And I also, it might due to high competition with dholes, leopards, bears (brown and black) and lions (-west asia to India) which enabled indo chinese tiger genes to unlock wanhsien genes again in Bengal tiger and same in case of amur and hrcanian. Reply