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12-21-2018, 08:06 PM( This post was last modified: 12-21-2018, 08:15 PM by Shadow )
(12-21-2018, 07:17 PM)Panther Wrote:
(12-21-2018, 01:23 PM)Shadow Wrote: Here is important to remember, that what is usual and what is exceptional, what comes to sexual maturity. If that mentioned 2 years 9 months was a female tiger, there is no real fundamental contradiction compared to information from Mazak.
The information provided by kingtheropod doesn't mentioned anywhere as "female".
Also according to V Mazak, females reach sexual maturity at 3-4 years, which has a considerable gap as compared to 2 year 9 months...
Yes I noticed and that is the reason for the word "if" in my posting. And 2 years 9 months is almost 3 years old with only 3 months gap. Not impossible at all, that some individual would be a little bit earlier sexually mature. These exceptions occur in every species. That is why we have averages, usual ranges and then outside usual ranges exceptional individuals. So female tigers according to Mazak usually reach sexual maturity at 3-4 years. That can´t be read, that earlier or later is impossible. Nature doesn´t work like that.
So logical conclusion is, that if some tiger has reached sexual maturity in age 2 years 9 months, it is a female, because then there is nothing too extraordinary. If that would be told to be a male, that would raise a lot of questions.