Siberian tigers are the largest of modern cats, and a small number of male individuals can reach more than 300 kg in adulthood, and there are also some unverifiable historical documents that record 318 kg, 384 kg, and 408 kg of Siberian tigers.
According to a paper jointly published by some scientists in the United States, India and Russia in 2005, we can know that 1970 was a watershed in the weight of Siberian tigers, and before that, due to the large number of tigers and the relatively abundant prey, the size of Siberian tigers was generally very large.
After 1970, the size of the Siberian tiger declined seriously, and the average weight of the contemporary male Siberian tiger was only 215.3 kg.
Although the size of the contemporary Siberian tiger cannot be compared with the level of history, it is still large enough to be frightening, as if it is as strong as a calf, with a huge head, wide paws, and a fierce look at standing in front of it with a strong sense of oppression.
However, many people think that the Siberian tiger is not the largest, according to legend, in the northeast of China and the Russian Far East, there was a super large tiger called "Northeast Asian Giant Tiger", which can weigh more than 800 kg and be as strong as a rhinoceros. Because its distribution site is in northeast Asia, it is also known as the "Far East Giant Tiger".
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According to the descriptions in some sources, the appearance of the Far Eastern giant tiger is similar to that of the Siberian tiger, with orange hair base, dark brown markings on the upper side, and the abdomen hair is off-white, but the body size is far larger than the Siberian tiger, it looks like a tiger magnified by more than 2 times, and is known as the strongest cat in history.
The emergence of the Far Eastern giant tiger is because the earth environment was still relatively primitive at that time, there were a large number of super large ungulates, and the tigers in Northeast Asia also underwent adaptive changes in the long process of species evolution, becoming large and strong in limbs, and being able to easily hunt these super large ungulates.
The last glacial period in geological history, the arrival of the last glacial glacial period, the expansion of tundra in Northeast Asia, the continuous shrinking of forests, and the Giant Tiger of the Far East trapped in a corner of the eastern coast, but this is only a sneaky birth, it can not last long, and finally in the Quaternary mass extinction event, that is, more than 10,000 years ago, together with the woolly rhinoceros, maneless lion and other prehistoric beasts of prehistoric prehistory extinction.
It was also the disappearance of the Giant Tiger of the Far East that after entering the Holocene, the tigers of North China were able to go north and spread to northeast Asia, eventually forming the modern Siberian tiger.
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Although the Far Eastern giant tiger does not have the conspicuous canine teeth like the saber-toothed tiger, due to its huge size, its canine teeth are also very large, and under the blessing of strong bite force, it can exert great power, no worse than saber-toothed tigers.
In fact, even prehistoric saber-toothed tigers can hardly exceed 800 kilograms, so it is not without reason that the Far Eastern giant tiger can be called the strongest prehistoric cat.
Due to its huge size, the hunting efficiency of the Giant Tiger of the Far East is much higher than that of modern tigers, and the means of hunting and killing is relatively simple, that is, it is to fall down and bite the throat directly to death.
The evolutionary direction of the Far Eastern giant tiger, mainly to the direction of hunting large prey, evolved adaptively, developed a large body, strong limbs and developed canine teeth.
Such equipment also gives the Far East giant tiger super predatory ability, they feed on a variety of large bison, bighorn deer, large red deer, etc., but also hunt wild boar, but because some smaller wild boar, in front of the Far East giant tiger like a small animal, so the Far East giant tiger will be less predatory, once preyed, usually it is a bite can be solved, do not need to be like a tiger to pull down and then lock the throat.
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At present, there is no authoritative data to prove the existence of the Giant Tiger of the Far East, and its descriptions mostly appear in some unverifiable literature and word of mouth.
It has been explained that the disappearance of the Far Eastern giant tiger was due to climate change at the time, the expansion of tundra, the reduction of prey, and the exact existence of other prehistoric animals. The reason why no fossils are left may be related to their distribution range, and the distribution range of the Far Eastern giant tiger is very narrow, so the number of fossils that can be formed is even more minimal.
This view, seemingly reasonable, is actually untenable, dinosaurs that were extinct tens of millions of years ago can leave a large number of fossils, not to mention the creatures that survived on the earth more than 10,000 years ago?
On March 30, 2010, the Heilongjiang Museum exhibited a huge fossil skull of a suspected big cat, which is also the strongest evidence that the Giant Tiger of the Far East is believed to be real.
The fossil skull was discovered in 1978 by experts from the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum at a brick factory in Hailar Beishan. At that time, the skull fossil was buried 4 meters underground, and according to calculations, it should belong to the Late Pleistocene period, about 20,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Extrapolating from the size of the skull fossil, the size of this big cat at that time should be between 1.5-2 times that of the contemporary Siberian tiger.
The skull exhibited in the Heilongjiang Museum, from the appearance, does look like the skull of a big cat, and in terms of size, it is indeed much larger than the modern tiger, so it has become the only strong evidence to prove the real existence of the Far Eastern giant tiger, which is widely circulated among relevant enthusiast groups.
It was also in this way that experts in the relevant fields were alarmed, and after identification, it was found that this was actually left by a cave lion, not the so-called Far Eastern giant tiger.
Cave lions are a prehistoric lion with a wide range of distribution, occupying most of the northern hemisphere during the Late Pleistocene period, including North Asia, so it is not surprising that cave lions were able to leave a skull fossil in the Northern Mountains of Hailar. Compared with modern cats, the cave lion is also quite large, able to easily exceed 400 kilograms, but it is also far from the rumored 800 kilograms of the Far Eastern giant tiger.
The only evidence of the Far East Giant Tiger is proved to be a cave lion, and whether it exists or not is once again a mystery, I think it does not exist, after all, a fossil has not been left, it is difficult to convince the public, what do you think?