Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

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(12-27-2018, 01:35 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:

(12-27-2018, 01:30 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(12-27-2018, 01:21 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: The big bear claws compared to big tiger claws.

The bear claw is obviously longer, and the tiger claw looks broader with more part being embedded into the bone sheath, hence it was accustomed to be retractable.

BTW, I've only seen the North American Grizzly bears with claws frequently exceeding 10 cm, sometimes up to 11-12 cm, whereas the Russian Brown bears' claws rarely exceeded 10 cm.

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What comes to bear claws. I think, that longest claws are from Alaskan coastal area(?). There are the biggest bears after all and only comparable bears what comes to size can be found from Kamchatka peninsula, Russia. Other Russian brown bears are more or less comparable with for instance Yellowstone brown bears and other inland populations, like our brown bears in Finland.

Alaskan Brown bear ~ 12 cm
Russian Brown bear ~ 10 cm
Amur tiger ~ 8.5 cm
Bengal tiger ~ 7.2 cm
African lion ~ 6.9 cm

These are the largest instances encountered from my personal experience, maybe there could have been even more outliers, but these are some rare cases for their respective species.

Happy New Year to you @GrizzlyClaws and to you @Shadow hope 2019 will be a very good one for both Reply