Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[Smerjeevski]

Hello Jonny Rex,

my name is Sergei, I have photographed and handled this particular tiger skull. Indeed it is particularly wide. It is also asymmetrical. It comes from a captive animal, the zygomatic arches are thick, the sagittal crest droops/slopes backwards and the occipitum is more poorly developed than in wild specimens.
The specimen is likely a hybrid siberian bengal like most captive tigers seen in zoos.

Sergei.

http://skullbase.info/skulls/mammals/lion.php

Pictures above showing a skull of an average wild adult male lion from Tanzania.

Pictures below showing a skull of a captive adult male tiger which is also an average-sized skull, but not sure which specimen of tiger.




http://skullbase.info/skulls/mammals/tiger.php

What amazes me is the width of the tiger skull in relation to its length. The lion skull is longer than the tiger skull, but the tiger skull is much wider than the lion skull. Imagine if there are 16-inches tiger skulls out there with similar skull configuration like this tiger skull, its width must be great. Reply