Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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(02-16-2022, 01:23 AM)LoveAnimals Wrote: Even if it's not wild this might be very interesting, as we all know there's this mystery whether siberian tigers in the past were or were not about the size of Bengal tigers.

Actually is not a mystery. Historic Amur tigers and Bengal tigers are/were of the same size. From the few reliable records and the sample of skulls we can say that there was not a significant difference between them.

So, you can be sure that Amur tigers were really big, but sadly the exterminion that they suffer at the end of 1940 created a bottleneck that is still in the process of regression. But take in count that in the 2000 it was rare that a male reached the 200 kg, but at 2012 some males weighed more than 210 kg, so I will not be surprised if some males are over 220 kg in these days (females are bigger too), but of course we need evidence first. Reply