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Just like we have the age and weight ranges of Bengal tigers, Heptner & Sludskii (1992) already produced a range of ages and weights for the Amur tigers that will be insteresting to read and even use:
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Is interesting to see that while the Russian zoologists and hunters from clasic litterature clasified the specimens of c.3 years old as dependant of they mother, and by extension not "mature" adults, the scientists of the Siberian Tiger Project clasified all the animals of that age and over like "adults".