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

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(03-07-2015, 09:50 AM)'tigerluver' Wrote:

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n=53 for girth relationship. n=30 for length relationship.

The chest girth relationship is bad. Length is moderately strong.

A second for Amurs:

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Total length this time, n=21

Note the positive allometry in mass vs. total length in the Amur tiger, opposed to the slight negative allometry in the body length relationship. From this, it looks like tails get proportionately shorter at greater lengths, causing the total length to not look as impressive as the mass of the specimen, when in actuality the specimen is long bodied but just short tailed as the graphs suggest.

Finally, I won't bother with a girth comparison, the correlation is abysmal for the Bengal tiger. But here's the side by side total length comparison:

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Great stuff, interesting that the tail is shorter when the body is longer. But my guess would be, longer orr "larger" cats go after larger prey. So while a tail is great for being a rutter and helping balance a big cat when in hot pursuit, larger prey aren't going to be "fast" so much as dangerous. So size is more important at that stage than high speed pursuit. 
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