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RE: Lions in West-Africa - Sanju - 02-23-2019

(02-15-2019, 01:56 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Doko I. Florent 


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That male has horse mane...

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RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 02-23-2019

@Sanju 

Interesting observation.  Lol


I found a video of two males fighting but very short and grainy 







RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 02-24-2019

Another solid male benin lion.


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RE: Lions in West-Africa - andeancat - 02-25-2019

Nice video @Lycaon (@andeancat just put @ before names) the lions of Benin are very impressive.  Large powerful, solid muscle and not an ounce of fat to be seen anywhere.  Impressive to see a 170 kg cat fly like a missile!

RE: Lions in West-Africa - Rage2277 - 02-25-2019

(02-15-2019, 01:56 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Doko I. Florent 


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badass...

RE: Lions in West-Africa - andeancat - 02-25-2019


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All from Zakouma NP in Chad, that last male is one beautiful cat.  Almost looks like a tiger.

RE: Lions in West-Africa - GuateGojira - 02-26-2019

(02-12-2019, 06:11 AM)Rishi Wrote: The shoulder heights are odd!

Actually, like the image says, these are not standing height. Check this:

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These are lengths from shoulder to tip of paw, just like the measurements taken by Dr Smuts in South Africa. That is why you see heights of up to 120 cm for lions, the often quoted heigh is not a real standing height. I don't know why the people don't see this if Smuts say it clearly in his document, even Dr Sunquist fall in this error.

RE: Lions in West-Africa - Pckts - 02-26-2019

(02-26-2019, 12:02 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:
(02-12-2019, 06:11 AM)Rishi Wrote: The shoulder heights are odd!

Actually, like the image says, these are not standing height. Check this:

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These are lengths from shoulder to tip of paw, just like the measurements taken by Dr Smuts in South Africa. That is why you see heights of up to 120 cm for lions, the often quoted heigh is not a real standing height. I don't know why the people don't see this if Smuts say it clearly in his document, even Dr Sunquist fall in this error.

I'm still curious what the correct deduction is for the "actual standing height"
But I do think it's the better way to measure just because Cats are obviously not standing at the time of capture and to interpret paw position would lead to too many discrepancies. 

I'm sure they measured the same way for MB2 when he quoted the height of 125cm. 
Sounds like that may be the common practice in India.

RE: Lions in West-Africa - GuateGojira - 02-26-2019

To be honest, I have not saw a shoulder measurement of Bengal tigers in modern documents, but some from Sumatran tigers are taken in that same way. From Russia one video shows that they take it in sections, not in one take.

Check this topic: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-for-waverider?page=3

The way how they measure the leopard height should be the correct one. This is also described by Brander.

RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 02-26-2019

It is always a good day seeing photos of lions in senegal.  Like  

Source: http://www.wildscope.com/travel-reports/overland-to-senegal-and-the.html



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RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 02-27-2019

A lovley pair of pendjari lions

Source : https://dieda-unterwegs.net/pendjari-national-park/


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RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 02-27-2019

Great picture of male in Waza national park Cameroon


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Source : http://leofoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LCI_workshop-2010_presentation-lions-Waza-NP-Cameroon.pdf

RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 02-28-2019

A big male with a female



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Source : https://deskgram.net/beninexcursion?next_id=1966088000938295491_9643372559

RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 03-01-2019

Alfred Kossa


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Jonas Van de Voorde

Buffalo in sight


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Dominant male


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RE: Lions in West-Africa - Lycaon - 03-01-2019

Jesse Shanks

Bad hair day !



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