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

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Rishi
I am not sure what he do, but I know he goes to national parks to see wild tigers including elusive Sundarban tigers. He said he as not found any size differences between mainland India and Sundarban after seeing many tigers. He probably never measured any tiger.
He would be very angry if he sees these discussion that we are concluding Sundarban tigers are smaller than other Bengal tigers.


peter
Thanks for information! I hope wildfact talks more about other tiger subspecies and Bengal tiger from Himalaya, Sundarban, and other area along with other big cats like leopard, cheetah, snow leopard, and clouded leopard.
 
I do agree Sundrban tiger is smaller than other Bengal tigers. How about their size in early 1900? Many large animals like Javan rhino and water buffalo used to live in Sundarban, and they are gone (Not sure of Asiatic elephant and Gaur lived there). I guess the Bengal tiger in Sundarban was bigger in early 20th century? They are indeed skinny today compared to tigers in India and Nepal. I guess this is due to low number of large mammal or something.

I still think Sundarban tiger was smaller than Bengal tigers from other areas even when there were many large mammals lived in Sundarban. I remember you wrote the Indochinese tiger lived in Mekong delta in cochinchina was smaller than other Indochinese tigers (I am not sure how much similar between Sundarban and Mekong delta). I clearly remember someone wrote the Sumatran tiger from lowland swamp area was smaller than other Sumatran tigers. This is the same for other large mammals like African elephant and rhino. African forest elephant is smaller than African savanna elephant. Rhino genus like White rhino, Black rhino, and Indian rhino are bigger than Javan rhino and Sumatran rhino. Large mammals are probably showing decreasing size when they are living in dense jungle, so they could able to move through dense forest.

I think this is another reason of why black tiger (Simlipal and Sundarban), black leopard (forest in India, Indochina, and Java island), and black jaguar (Amazon) are discovering from dense forest areas. Black color means it is easier to hide themselves from their prey. One question is that I have never heard of black tiger in Indochina to Indonesian islands.

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Who is this tiger? He is huge. Where he is living? I know there is camera trick, but this tiger looks bigger than Jai. 
How come powerful tiger like B2 looked so small when he died comparing to this male tiger? Reply