Large male tigers from India (Videos Only)

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(10-05-2016, 09:49 AM)Apollo Wrote: When it comes to Bengals and amurs, the old hunting records and the modern scientific records all show that bengals were heavier animals than amurs.
The silght difference in body length in favor of amurs may be due to different measuring procedures.
IMHO the Northern bengals in the Terai belt along with Northeastern Bengals (Kaziranga, Orang, Manas etc excluding Sunderbans) should be the biggest and heaviest living cats.

You have to remember that even Bengals had a very hard time in the past. They were decimated in hundreds by the Britishers and the Indian Maharajas after the introduction of rifles.
Even amurs were not hunted in that scale.
In Terai arc, Assam and Western ghats during hunting expeditions hundreds of Bengals were killed in weeks time. Regional extinctions started occuring and large genetic lineages were lost forever.


If you want to talk about ancient bengals and amurs before iceage. I think @GrizzlyClaws is the man. 
According genetic studies, genetic bottlenecking occured in both the subspecies during the end of the iceage.



In most of the captive centers around the world the tigers what they call Bengals are not at all pure Bengals. 
Purebred Bengals are very few outside India.
The Indian zoos are badly maintained (animals were not kept in ideal conditions).

But why in wikipedia siberian tiger  is the biggest subspecies tiger? Reply