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

[WaveRiders]

peter

Thank you once again. I appreciated a lot your post. I honestly feel very sorry that we are rarely in the same wave length. I like to read your posts even when I am in disagreement with your considerations and conclusions.

 
And now an info off topic.

LARGEST AMUR TIGER  SKULLS
 
I may have a bad news concerning the large Amur tiger skull housed in the Berlin Natural History Museum measured by Mazak at 383 mm in greatest length. By an investigation I did 12-15 years ago I came to know that it seemed that skull was not present in the Museum collection as it could not be located. Perhaps after the Wall fall it went somewhere in Russia or in Czech Republic or who knows where (private collection of a wealthy man?). Maybe they finally located it in the Museum in the last few years.
 
In conclusion we have the 406 mm skull that nobody saw it. A picture of it came from China brought by a Czech with sme measurements hand written on the back of the picture. There is no trace of this skull nowhere. You may have noticed Kitchener & Yamaguchi (2010) removed that data from the analysis of greatest length of skull vs latitude that Kitchener had initially published in 1999 including that skull.
 
Then we have the supposed 400 mm skull reported by Baikov which nobody saw it, nobody knows where it is and nobody knows how it would have been measured (with teeth and/or mandible included or not).
 
Finally, perhaps the 383 mm Mazak skull disappeared. I really hope it is not the case. It would be worth to investigate again the issue (peter maybe you can try to do it and hopefully find it).
 
 
                           WaveRiders

 

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