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

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Those huge canines that you show are from the famous Wanhsien tiger, I think, or are from subfossils?

Even then, this shows that tigers have prefered the long canines strategy and despite the fact that this diminish at some level the gap size, the large canines are the best tool to kill the wide-neck large herbivores. So, the gap is no problem after all.

About the Kaziranga tigers, it is posible that some skulls of up to 17 in (43 cm) could exist, but we need those bones in museums.

An interesting fact, I have read many documents and the longest wild lion skull acepted by scientists is not the 17 in skull from Rowland Ward but another South Africa specimen of 419 cm (16.5 in) hunted by Kirby in the late nineteen century. Even Helmut Hemmer, in his great monograph about the lion, state that this skull is the longest reliable recorded and not that of Rowland Wards. Interesting, don't you think?
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