Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[GrizzlyClaws]

(10-01-2017, 11:02 AM)johnny rex Wrote: Anyway, can anyone guess the measurements of the skull of Panthera t. acutidens that was posted by @GrizzlyClaws previously? @peter, any thoughts?

Not necessarily the old school Wanhsien tiger, it could belong to an Amur tiger who lived in the beginning era of the Holocene period.

I have the feeling that the modern Amur tigers have suffered the radical gracilization due the lack of large preys and human pressure.

The robust features of the old school Amur tiger now appear to be almost absent among the modern Amur tigers; totally extinct in the wild, while with only few survivors who carry these robust features in the captivity.

If the 2 inches thick Amur canine tooth is a captive specimen, then it could be pretty much a specimen that still carries the recessive gene of the old school Amur tigers. Reply