History's most brutal killers, the Majingilane Male Lions

[Polar]

(01-19-2016, 01:30 AM)Pckts Wrote:

(01-19-2016, 12:12 AM)Polar Wrote: I can see that these particular lions are well past their prime, but yet a similar girth and size to a six year old lion. Lions/Tigers look so scrawny when lying on their side...

Remember that it is all relative, compare a lion or tiger on their side with a human being next to them for scale and you see their true size...
Like the dead tiger from Nepal that I posted.

Its all about angles, put a large animal in front and smaller human behind them and they look massive, move further behind them and that makes them appear even larger, get down on a knee, turn a different direction, uneven ground, etc. All of these will play a role in deceiving the viewer which is why so many of us prefer video to picture.

One of my favorite pictures

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I see a lot of those "huge" optical illusion pictures regarding lions/bears and their hunters (especially the respective animals' head sizes to the hunter's body), and usually the hunter kneels down a distance across the lion or bear, displaces their paws/head closer to the camera, or stands far behind either one of them. Not so the case with tiger photos, most of the tiger photos I saw involved their hunters literally leaning directly against the tiger's chest or them standing directly over the tiger as in the case with old Indian hunt pictures, and the one with the native Manchurian kneeling side-to-side with the large Siberian tiger.

The dead tiger you posted was a very huge one at least 270 kg for sure, in my opinion. I'm talking about an average one. I've been to the Rhino and Lion Wildlife Reserve down in South Africa and I was amazed by the size of the lions I saw up close, but I've never been to Krai Penninsula or South Asian jungles to see an actual wild tiger uphand. Reply