Who is the "king" of tigers? - Bengal or Amur

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In fact, modern and historic Amur tigers seems to be of the same size, with the only difference been in weight and chest girth. Historic males had larger chest girths and with a larger sample probably were of the same average than an Indian tiger, which is about c.130 cm.

Historic males seems longer, but this is because the giant male of Jankowski is included. All the dimensions are about the same, in males and females of both times, and the little differences (mostly less than 2 cm!) are an effect of the sample size. This suggest that historic and modern Amur tigers has been of the same body size, although old ones were more robust and heavier.

On the weight issue, there is no specimen that have bottomed a scale, specially in the modern ones.
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