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

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(02-28-2017, 01:25 PM)Rishi Wrote: "I heard that a reliable data of the largest skull was came from the Amur tiger."
Yes...I was wrong, i withdraw my statement.
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"The heaviest one was the Bengal, but he was eaten large buffalo before he killed."
Any WILD tiger, greater than 350kgs was probably gorged...


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"Captive ones are absolutely the Amur is the biggest in length, weight, and others."
Ofcourse, their body is genetically designed to survive the harshness of the North by fully utilising every bit of nutrient available & hold more fat.
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"Sadly, it's difficult to find it out in wild since majority tigers are gone."
You are free to present any CONCRETE data (Not those, my granpa saw 12' tiger) from the past.
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Scientists in Russia report that no tigers immobilized by the Russian team have weighed as much as those in Chitwan. It probably is a function of habitat quality. Siberian tigers have the potential for being the largest, and captive ones are larger than captive Bengals. But in the wild the prey base in Russia is not abundant enough for those tigers to NATURALLY ACHIEVE their full potential. Prey is more scattered and the Russian tigers need huge territories to capture sufficient food, so much more energy is expended in the food quest.

This statement is interesting. 
"Scientists in Russia report that no tigers immobilized by the Russian team have weighed as much as those in Chitwan. It probably is a function of habitat quality. Siberian tigers have the potential for being the largest, and captive ones are larger than captive Bengals. But in the wild the prey base in Russia is not abundant enough for those tigers to NATURALLY ACHIEVE their full potential. Prey is more scattered and the Russian tigers need huge territories to capture sufficient food, so much more energy is expended in the food quest."


The Amur tiger could have been(?) biggest and the most powerful cat. But Bengal tiger makes me more impressive me sometimes whenever I see photos of tiger is hunting rhino and crocodile. It was possible to see it in other part of Southeast Asia, but it's very difficult to search Indochinese tiger, Malayan tiger, and Sumatran tiger. Reply