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(01-05-2017, 11:22 PM)Pckts Wrote: Just another typical monster from Kaziranga.
Can't believe that they were partially descended from the smaller Indochinese tigers.
I think that the habitat will dictate the size, regardless of the sub species. I honestly believe that if you took different tiger "sub species" and introduced them to foreign environments (Siberia/India/Sunderbans etc) that regardless of the Tiger, eventually the big cat would adapt to the modern cat we now see in those areas.
Also like you said, just because a bengal breeds with an indo doesn't mean the offspring will be small, same like we have seen with amur/bengal hybrids or Sumatran/Amur hybrids as well.