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12-02-2014, 09:36 AM( This post was last modified: 12-02-2014, 09:37 AM by GuateGojira )
At this day, the largest skull from a captive Amur tiger that I have found is that of the male CN5698, which had a greatest length of 393 mm (that table is from 2013, so I have not post that measurement yet). It seems that this male had a large head and a relative small body while No. 11 male had a large body but relative small head. Peter in other posts provided information that some captive Amur tigers were short with large heads and others long with short heads.
That liger skull of c.432 mm is the only that I have found (if we believe that the three skulls are in fact the same), so we can't compare them with other specimens. Even worst, we don't know the size and weight of the specimen in life. Compared with wild lions and tigers, it seems no larger than the largest wild lion skull and barely over 3 cm than the largest tiger skull. However, like I said before, we don't know the data of this particular liger, so we can't make comparisons yet.
Until we have a larger database on ligers, all what we have are conjectures, and I bet that the skull from the tiger Jaipur is no smaller than that of the liger Hercules, just check the comparison image in my first post.
The heaviest Liger ACTUALLY measured by Guinness (2014)
