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I was wondering about the whole 230kgs too, I would never call a 230kgs lion (with "food in their stomachs", he doesn't say if they were full or not) an average or below average lion like Rob did, I'd say the lion is quite big.
It's intriguing though, because he straight up says "I know they were weighed because I was there", would he make this up?
But I'm a bit confused, you're saying that they might be smaller than what Rob claimed, or bigger? If Dreads and Makulu were some 215kgs lions without stomach content it would be within what I personally estimated as a random person, which are pretty big lions, IMO any 200kgs cat is big, the average in most places isn't this high.
I also think like this: if Makulu is like higher than 230kgs, how heavy would be Hairy Belly who was clearly considerably larger? And how about Caesar Notch, was he even larger than HB or not? If we keep this up we're gonna end up with 300kgs lions which honestly sounds absurd, so Rob's claim seems logical to me, I just don't understand how he thinks 230kgs with stomach content is "average or below average".