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

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(02-23-2015, 09:48 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: 1. The plate looks more like a colored picture than a simple draw. The details are too perfect, so I guess that in fact, it is a photograph. What I still ask to you is the scan of the page where it is mentioned the weight of 705 lb, that is because I normally kept all the images of the records, with special care on the original sources. In this case, I will add that page in my database, together with the plate. I will like to know if the other posters also believe that that "draw" in the plate is probably a colored "photograph" or not; for me, it is just too perfect.



 

PLATE 22 FROM SMYTHIES BOOK
 
I realize the immense passion some people like you have for animals (a particular animal as you continuously demonstrate to really hate others and I wonder why because they are creatures that did nothing bad to you). You and some other people have a passion that goes beyond any level of conceivable imagination and that on several occasions in my opinion cause you all to completely forget the reality. I can see only blind passion behind you, so it is not too bad till the level of rudeness and aggression in the web (which I generally always see as a truly coward action) stay controlled. If not passion I could only justify it primarily for commercial reasons, but it is not the case for you.

My advice is that if you want to accept the 705 lb record you do not need to build yourself the illusion that a coloured painting is a coloured photograph. I perfectly know you often want to see the impossible, accept as a scientific prove/evidence something that one cannot and reject evidence that is scientifically accepted and/or proved.

Accept the 705 lb record in your tables and files, be sure that IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, the Journal of Zoology and so on do not care.
 
 
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