Who is the "king" of tigers? - Bengal or Amur

[tigerluver]

@Selachimorpha11, empty belly means adjusting the weight of the animal for contents in its stomach. I infer you are refering to the Hasinger 389 kg male which in the post is said to be empty belly 322 kg. No one actually weighed the contents of its stomach, thus the empty belly weight is conjecture based on the belief that cats can eat 20% of their weight. Here's the Hasinger tiger:

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The specimen was baited I believe and thus must have had a meal. From these photos, he likely was not gorged and did not have 67 kg of food in his belly, in my opinion at least. Now the issue of how true the alleged mass of 389 kg is a completely different story. Sugar plantation scales were used in weighing him if I remember correctly, and that may or may not be subject to error. 

I mathematically analyzed the possibility of the weight in this post. Reply