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(12-04-2021, 05:10 AM)LandSeaLion Wrote: Here’s an example - at the 1:30 mark, Dr. Luke Hunter, Chief Conservation Officer of Panthera, confidently discusses the differences between an African leopard skull and a cheetah skull…with the minor problem that the “cheetah” skull he is holding is actually that of a snow leopard:
Kudos to you man for being able to identify it from behind a screen rather than actually holding it! Or maybe you read it somewhere?
Well Snow leopards have actually pretty tricky skulls, you wouldn't expect from a Panthera member to have such rounded and short skull so I'd probably mistake it as well for a cheetah skull.
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I have found a way to distinguish lion and tiger skulls more easily than most other visual identification.
Look at the highest point of the skull of both, the skull table.
Seems like lion has the wider one.
In fact on the left there's the tiger and on the right there's the lion.
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The proportionally wider skull table thing is revealed even in this front view comparison