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

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

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04-04-2017, 04:21 AM

Body dimensions will have nothing to do with prey availability, no doubt a cat that has more prey will be larger, why wouldn't they be, but body length and shoulder height are not dictated by prey availability, when both had/have abundant prey, their body dimensions still show significant overlap in the wild.


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So even if we were to throw out the body mass advantage for the bengal, the body dimensions show no advantage towards the Amur of being a bigger cat. So assuming they could put on more weight than a bengal with equal prey seems a bit of a stretch, since I don't know where exactly you could distribute the extra poundage.
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