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

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(01-26-2015, 01:26 PM)'peter' Wrote: Agreed, Guate. The male tiger killed in a fight was a very small male, if it was an adult male at all. I propose to post the article Warsaw posted as well (in the Shaggy God forum).

The points made, however, stand. I saw healthy adult male Amur tigers in captivity hardly larger than an adult female and I saw them more than once. For indirect proof, I would propose to read the table posted not so long ago on captive Amur tigers. They are there in captivity and I do not doubt they are in wild Russia as well. The reason was given and I think the 'Lazy Tiger' was a confirmation.  

Maybe you can find something more in the article I referred to. It's in Russian and it's possible the machine made a mistake translating the text. Warsaw, however, got to the same conclusion: the old boy (pad width 11,0 cm.) was killed in a fight with an immature male (pad width 9,5 cm.). 
 

 

As you can read, I am agree in your analysis, but not with the article of Warsaw. That tiger CAN'T be an adult male, it is just impossible, OR is a dwarf, the first in record, by the way.

The lazy tiger was not small, it was just light in weight (there are no measurements from him). The same goes with the captive specimens of less than 150 kg, they are light, but they are not small per se. Did you remember the tiger Maurice? He is the largest tiger measured by scientists in body dimensions, but he only weighed 179 kg, barely 2 kg more than the Nagarahole tigress Sundari of 177 kg.

This is not the case with the tiger in the story of Warsaw, that is a small specimen in aaaaaaall departments, size, weight, skull, etc. Compare it with the picture of the female cub Cinderella.
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