Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

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(10-30-2016, 12:38 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Kingtheropod:

About #259: Very interesting your explanations. We can indeed conceive that the tiger, being exclusively solitary hunter, needs longer canines in order to neutralize some big preys. Being a solitary hunter too, he cannot risk getting wounded.

Amazing fact: how a liger does he have a significantly longer claw than both lions and tigers ? Of course this beast is the biggest big cat we could imagine, but this is not a specy, an animal specy with an history, being a link in the natural history of the evolution... The liger is just an hybrid created by the humans with nothing related to the "struggle for life" inside their genes. Paradox !

I haven't seen any lion or tiger claw got anything more than 2.75 inches without pulling the nail.

There is a holotype of a 16.75 inches liger skull with 5.625 inches canines, that's almost an inch shorter than the largest tiger canine. However, there is chance of having larger and undiscovered liger specimens. Reply