Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(05-17-2019, 02:48 PM)Arctotherium Wrote: So,2012's study come from 1993(Anyong)?
https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/2-new-studies-of-pleistocene-lions/
https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/panthera-atrox-the-1007-pound-giant-lion/

Did you know that these links are by no means a scientific study, correct? 

Also, the blog is completelly incorrect, in the paper of Wheeler and Jefferson from 2009 they clearly explain that the high figures are based in just one single calculation and is the wide of the femur, ignoring the other factors, and as the calculation is incorrect, they used other formulas and at the end the average of all they calculation, with all the formulas, was a maximum weight of 332 kg, much less than the maximum of 351 kg calculated by Christiansen & Harris (2009). My suggestion to you is to read the original document and check the methods by your self, don't use random blogs like a primary reference.

And just in case that you don't want to follow my advise, here is the table from that original document:

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As you can see, the figure of 478 kg, although generated from the formulas of Christiansen & Harris (2005), this is only one calculation and they used several to calculate the weight. Check that using only the length formula, also from them, the weight drop to only 271 kg! The average of the two produce a figure of 374.5 kg, very big but there is the other problem that the results are not "weighted", something that Christiansen and Harris suggested to do. Reply