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

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(04-22-2014, 10:41 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: The measurement of 9 cm was definitely taken from the live animal, so it was from the tip to the gum line. As far I remember, the longest tiger skull is longer than the longest Homotherium skull, I could be wrong as I don't remember it very well, but if this is true, this would mean that Homotherimum had longer canines in relation with its GSL. However, the tiger is the only modern cat that have canines as long as those of this saber-tooth cat, at least in captivity.

About the private collections, I have observed that most of them not just don't keep the skulls of they animals, but also only buy the skull from Bone Clones (that of 39 cm) for presentation purposes. This is also the skull that most schools have.
 

 

 

 

The replica from the bone clone doesn't get very impressive upper canines.

But now i tend to see that some captive Amur tigers might have developed the unprecedented canines size for the big cats, since no wild tiger ever approached that mark, nor any prehistoric big cat based on the fossils. When you check Panthera atrox and Panthera spelaea, none of them would get the Homotherium sized canines.

I think this could be the genetic mutation among some captive tigers. Reply