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Tiger Musculature (Full)

Here, the tiger's muscles and muscle fibers are colored according to fiber type. The muscular anatomy doesn't match the exact muscular anatomy of a real tiger, but the muscle fiber types do more so. Muscle may also not be differentiated very well, either, due to the addition of color.

Fast-twitch fibers are bright pink, and slow-twitch fibers are red. Notice how most muscles have a preference of one fiber type over the other in the tiger drawing (like in real tigers), and carnivores pretty much have the same rule applied to them.

Primates including us, however, usually have a 50/50 split of the two fiber types in most muscles, with the exception of heel muscles and stabilizer muscles in the back and neck (to keep out posture longer), in which the former is quite fast-twitch and the latter is more slow-twitch.

   


@tigerluver,

Thanks! I do quite well when it comes to musculature/skeletal design of many animals, but the musculature morphology of my drawing don't usually match the real musculature morphology of the animals in question.

I like studying about muscle function, fibers, and molecular differences in muscles sometimes. Reply