Biggest Kaziranga tiger?

[johnny rex]

(12-06-2014, 12:22 AM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(12-04-2014, 09:37 PM)'GrizzlyClaws' Wrote:

(12-01-2014, 11:46 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: If you watch the Super Cat doc they have a lion, Tiger and Liger skull all side by side

The liger skull is massive, obviously we don't know if the Tiger and lion skull are male or female but they don't come close to the liger skull size.

Hey Grizz, how do you know captive tiger skulls are larger than wild ones, out of curiousty?






 

Some captive Amur tigers have been known to have their head measurement up to 20 inches, so their skulls are probably up to 17 inches as well.

BTW, the monstrous specimen like Baikal probably got a skull between 17 to 18 inches.





 

Its to hard to know what actually skull measurements would be off of head size.
Muscle mass, fur densisty, etc will play a huge role.
From the sizes of skulls confirmed of captive Siberians that I have seen. They don't seem any larger than wild. 280kg specimens with 14.24'' skulls, seems to fit nicely. Also, skull size is not direct relation to tiger size, body length is usually a better indicator to tiger weight.

 




 

So, @Pckts you believe Baikal actually have a rather small skull measuring only at 14-15 inches at that size? In most videos that I had watched that showing Amur tigers and lions together, it is always the Amur tigers that have the larger head size when compared to lions. For example, those videos show a comparison between a male lion and an Amur tiger.

 

 

 

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