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The size of the Barbary lion

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We need to admite that using captive specimens do not necesarily reflect the real status of a wild species, specially in lions.

Captive lions, specially in the past, did not generated muscular bodies like the wild ones, altough some of them did reached large sizes. Hollister reported also that the skulls from captive lions are much larger than the wild ones, and more massive in the bone structure. Why? I don't know yet. So, that could be an explanation about why the captive Barbary lions reported in litterature had such a large skulls.
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RE: The size of the Barbary lion - sanjay - 04-05-2014, 11:39 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - chaos - 04-06-2014, 04:29 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - chaos - 04-07-2014, 05:40 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Pckts - 04-15-2014, 09:58 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Pckts - 04-15-2014, 11:48 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Pckts - 04-16-2014, 01:00 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Pckts - 04-16-2014, 02:04 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Pckts - 04-16-2014, 02:26 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Pckts - 04-22-2014, 03:56 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Polar - 01-25-2017, 08:57 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Vinay - 01-25-2017, 11:00 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Matias - 02-02-2017, 09:46 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Rishi - 02-28-2017, 11:41 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Betty - 05-24-2018, 10:53 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Betty - 05-24-2018, 11:19 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - epaiva - 09-23-2018, 07:58 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Spalea - 09-25-2018, 10:40 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Matias - 09-25-2018, 11:19 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Spalea - 04-26-2019, 12:18 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Spalea - 04-26-2019, 11:05 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Shadow - 09-19-2019, 09:49 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Shadow - 10-11-2019, 06:55 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - peter - 11-29-2019, 12:22 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Asad981 - 05-10-2020, 04:45 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Rishi - 05-10-2020, 06:13 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - sanjay - 05-22-2020, 04:21 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Spalea - 01-14-2022, 02:10 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Spalea - 01-14-2022, 01:40 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Betty - 01-25-2022, 07:28 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Betty - 01-25-2022, 07:40 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Betty - 01-25-2022, 09:49 PM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - peter - 01-26-2022, 04:09 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Matias - 01-26-2022, 07:12 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - peter - 01-26-2022, 09:42 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Matias - 01-28-2022, 05:13 AM
RE: The size of the Barbary lion - GuateGojira - 01-28-2022, 07:01 PM
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RE: The size of the Barbary lion - Matias - 01-30-2022, 01:37 AM
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