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

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@GrizzlyClaws The record of the largest Bengal and likely the largest Tiger of all time (in terms of dimensions) came from Col. Ramsay who shot a Tiger in the Terai region in North India. This Tiger was 12 feet (365cm) in total length (over curves) and had a tail of 114cm.

So it was 251cm in head-body length over curves and the HB length in straight line should also be no less than at least 231cm going by Mazak’s 20cm for the largest Tiger. But from the relation I have seen between curved and straight length, it would probably be a little longer than 231cm.

This Tiger also had a chest girth of 160cm. This Tiger should dwarf any other Tiger ever recorded in terms of dimensions, whether Amur or Bengal.



And if we talk about the size of current Amurs and how ‘bulky’ they are, then we know that the Siberian Tigers in Primorye region in Russia are also bulky. Even the Tigers which were weighed in the Siberian Tiger Project were also bulky.

PT85 looked like a very healthy and bulky Tiger but only weighed 199kg while Luk who also looked bulky weighed 212kg.

Here is a Tiger T7 in Panna who is also very bulky but he only weighed 180kg. Here you can see what he looks like.

So I think the length and height would be a better indicator of the overall weight of the Tiger rather than bulkiness but to be completely sure, a real weight on a scale should be the only way to go.

From what we currently know about the Chinese Tigers, we can’t say anything about their size and we can’t really say that they are any bigger than the Russian Tigers or if they are as big as Bengals because 220-230kg is relatively common for Bengals and even weights upto 250kg don’t really seem that large for Bengals. Reply