Size comparisons

[LonePredator]

(04-15-2022, 09:56 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-15-2022, 09:03 PM)LonePredator Wrote: Ahh, that is what I expected. Jaguars are like mini Tigers. Lots of similarities with the short legs, robust bodies, both are very good swimmers too.

And particularly their lifestyles. Don’t you think the Jaguars, the Sumatran Tigers and the Sundarban Tigers are so similar in terms of their lifestyles?

I wonder what would happen in a hypothetical scenario if all three of them (Jaguar, Sundarban Tiger and Sumatran Tiger) live in the same habitat. Maybe they might hybridise and form a new species over thousands of years. At the same time they may wipe each other out due to close competition.

But nevertheless, this seems like a very interesting scenario.

Sumatran tigers, actually, are not as aquatic as the Sundarbans tigers, they have swamps but most of its habitat is forest, while Sundarbans tigers need to swim daily and that is why are so different from any other tiger population. Both of them are close in body size and weight, although I still don't have skull measurements from Sundarbans tigers to compare. If these two population lived together they will definitelly mix as they are the same species, now which genetic is going to be the dominant is something that we can't know.

About the jaguar, I have read about the agresiveness of this animal, but I think that some of them are probably just popular tales. We know that they have the strongest bite among cats, but that doesn't mean that they will use it in a fight against an unknown animal at the first oportunity. Pantanal jaguars are slightly smaller than Sundarbans or Sumatran tigers so they will have a chance to coexist with the small tigers, but any other jaguar population will be suppresed or dominated, like tigers do with leopards where they coexist. But all this is just speculation at the end. Now an hybrid between jaguar and tiger is highly unlikelly as hibrids do not have decendence, like the liger for example, where only the female can bread and that from a biological point of view is useless to sustain a species overall.

I think I had read somewhere that Sumatran tigers swim into open seas but that may have been wrong or maybe it was a very rare occurrence.

Anyway, are all subspecies/populations of Jaguars and Tigers equally adapted for an aquatic lifestyle? Like do all types of Tigers and Jaguars have webbed paws and other (if anymore exist) adaptations for an aquatic lifestyle or does it only exist in specific populations/subspecies? Reply