Nature · Hornaday specimen · historical shoulder-height reference
How tall is Tiger?
William T. Hornaday’s New York Zoological Park guide reports a tiger specimen at 3 feet 7 inches at the shoulders, about 1.09 meters. This record uses that historical individual reference.
≈ 1.0922 m
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- Historical individual shoulder measurement · 3 feet 7 inches
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The official park guide identifies a large specimen taken by Hornaday and gives its shoulder height as three feet seven inches. Forty-three inches converts exactly to 1.0922 meters, but the source is a historical whole-inch description with no modern measurement protocol. This is not presented as a current species average or maximum.
The selected artwork shows a living tiger in a neutral side view, with the shoulder anchor below its ears. Its stripe arrangement and body proportions are interpretive rather than specimen-identification evidence. The same historical passage includes other claims that are not adopted here; only the clearly stated individual shoulder reference supports this comparison.
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William T. Hornaday’s New York Zoological Park guide reports a tiger specimen at 3 feet 7 inches at the shoulders, about 1.09 meters. This record uses that historical individual reference.
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About 1.09 meters belongs to a documented historical specimen, not every tiger.
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