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

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

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05-12-2014, 04:00 PM

(05-12-2014, 10:03 AM)'Richardrli' Wrote:
(05-12-2014, 09:51 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: That will be interesting Pckts. However I need to mention a little fact. Until 1968, the tigers from Indochina and Malaysia were also classified as "Bengals". It is possible, if not completely certain, that many of the old "small" Bengals were in fact Indochinese or Malayan tigers. It is important to take this in count in old comparisons.
 


 
That's interesting Guate, can I ask for the source? Thanks


 

 



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"The Indochinese tiger was not considered a separate subspecies UNTIL 1968, when Dr. Mazak spend several months studying a captive tiger from Vietnam and many skulls, then he conclude that there were enough differences for put it in a new subspecies, which had been proved right with the studies of Lou et al.
My sources were the document of Mazak and the book "Riding the Tiger"."


"* Kitchener said that are three subspecies:
1. Land tiger: From Amur to Indochina, taking India.
2. Island tiger: Sonda islands.
3. Caspian tiger.

However the NEW GENETIC STUDIES maded by Lou et al. shows that there are enough genetic differences between the Bengal (tigris), Indochinese (corbetti), South china (amoyensis) and Amur tiger (altaica), and that the Sumatran tiger could be even a COMPLETE different species. By the way, the Javan and the Bali "tigers" could be a new species to, with the Javan tiger like "Panthera sondaica sondaica" and the Bali like "Panthera sondaica balica".

Finally, the Caspian tiger was just the western population of the Amur tiger, so Kitchener was completely wrong, sorry for him.

About the size, the Indochinese is smaller than the Bengal tiger, this is a fact know since Pocock (1939) and Mazak (1976)"
 
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