Size comparisons

[peter]

(08-27-2019, 12:04 AM)Luipaard Wrote: @peter 

Quote:There was quite a debate about this skull in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. In the end, it was concluded that the skull of Mr. Limouzin belonged to a tigress

Do you have any prove for that?  

Yes. I found the letter of Pocock published in the JBNHS (Vol. XXXIV, Misc. Notes, II - Tiger or Panther?, pp. 544-547).
 
Here's a quote from Pocock's letter (page 545):

" ... In actual length there is not always much difference between large skulls of male panthers, especially African, and smallish skulls of Indian tigresses; but the tigress's skull can be distinguished at a glance by its greater height, and general massiveness, notably in the width of the jaws, and in the much greater size of the teeth. In its tout ensemble it is quite unmistakable; and Mr. Limouzin's skull is a perfectly typical tigress's, with nothing at all remarkable about it. It has the large teeth, the massive muzzle, the long nasals, the broad mesopterygoid fossa etc. of the tiger ... " (R.I. Pocock, British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London, December 1929). Reply