The size of the Barbary lion

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(01-29-2022, 02:18 AM)Spalea Wrote: About #130: I read the file you linked. Interesting and the observation conditions well depicted. But I'm remaining skeptical. I believe understanding (I am not good in english) that the 5 captive lions were born in Kenya and fed with wild animal's flesh... But, of course, it isn't enough to explain such a difference of the skull bony structure between wild and captive lions.

So, I don't know ! This experimentation dates from more one century now, and the results/conclusions seem to be so paradoxical.

Actually, those lions were fullly rised in captivity in they adulthood and that is why the skulls are so big. Again. the other document that I posted here is from 2014, so it is futile to deny the fact that captive lions, for some reason, develop bigger, wider and stronger skulls than wild ones. In fact, do you remember the huge lion skull that Mazák measured? It was from a captive one and the skull was so long and deformed that it looks like a little horse. There are other deformities that lion skulls develop, they are described in the document. Reply