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

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(04-04-2020, 10:19 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 01:12 AM)OncaAtrox Wrote: Great image! Could you make one comparing the largest populations of jaguars, primarily Pantanal and Llanos jaguars against Malayan, Sumatran, Javan and Bali tigers? Their sizes appear to overlap so it'd be interesting to see how they measure against each other.

Yes I can. Actually I have an old comparative image of jaguars from the Pantanal and I can tell you that there is some overlap between the Sumatran and Bali tigers. In fact, the Sumatran tigers look like if they are relativelly "lighter" in comparison with other tiger populations, because they are longer than Pantanal jaguars but they overlap in weight very much, with maximum figures of 148 kg for both populations, this was already observed by Dr Helmut Hemmer when observed that Bengal/Amur tigresses with smaller skulls than those of the male Sumatran tigers actualy weight much more with an average advantage of more than 10 kg at least. Now, the Bali tigers and the Pantanal jaguars looks about the same size in the skull deparment (remember that we have only 1 body measurement for Bali tigers and was taken, apparently "over curves"), and based in the pictures available, there is a posibility that they weighed about the same and also that they had the same body measurements. Now, about the Malayan tigers, they are a completelly different league, there are much larger than any jaguar population in modern days, that is for sure.

I am going to make the comparison for you, let's see what we can get.

Yes. I have seen 2 adult malayan males and 4 malayan females. They are obviously bigger than sumatran tigers and as you said - completelly different league when it comes to comparison to jaguars Reply