ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(Yesterday, 03:10 PM)peter Wrote:

(03-08-2025, 04:37 PM)return 80 Wrote: Share a skull photo

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This is the only photo of the skull of a male Caspian tiger whose origin is China that I found on the Chinese Internet. 

It may have been taken by Ji H. Mazák and catalog number is ZIN 4046(housed in Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences). According to relevant archives, it should have come from Yili(Kuldzha), Xinjiang Province, northwest China in 1888

Very nice photograph of a skull of a wild Caspian tiger! Anything known about the measurements? Weight?

Unfortunately, I do not have its measurement data as Ji H. mazák and V. mazák have not publicly disclosed detailed information about the Caspian tiger. I know their average GSL is about 340mm, but from Nobuyuki Yamaguchi's data, except for the particularly large 369mm skull, almost all normal sized male individuals are 335-340mm in size, and they should have used the same skull specimen. Therefore, I believe that if ZIN4046 is not the largest skull (369mm), then its skull length should also be around 335-340mm

But I know a male Bengal tiger who not only has detailed skull records, but also very detailed body data records, which is AMNH113744 in the screenshot of the supplementary materials I just sent.This is a photo of this specimen that I obtained from the research of Qigao Jiangzuo et al

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Its skull size is the average size of a male Bengal tiger, but its body measurements are relatively large.

According to AMNH's database records, it is a male Bengal tiger captured from Chunakahn in northern India in 1936. The total length of the body is 310cm(over curves), the chest girth is 137cm, and the Body mass recorded is 236kg.These are data converted from feet, inches, and pounds.

It retains its complete skin and skeleton, and I have some measurements of its skeleton. It is the largest wild tiger skeleton measurement record I have ever seen.

The measurement data of its limb bones is slightly larger than the wild male Amur tigers AMNH85404, AMNH85396, and Tiger-04 mentioned above, and is about the same length as the captive male Amur tigers CN5698 and CN6049 in Per Christiansen's sample, but slightly shorter than CN5697.It is one of the few individuals in tigers whose radius can exceed 300mm and approach 310mm Reply