Tuesday, February 25, 2014

A note about tigers

Tigers are the most variable in size of all big cats, even more so than leopards and much more so than lions. The Bengal, Caspian and Siberian tiger subspecies represent the largest living felids, and rank among the biggest felids that ever existed. Body size of different populations seems to be correlated with climate—Bergmann’s Rule—and can be explained from the point of view of thermoregulation.

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