(12-03-2014, 05:27 PM)'Spalea' Wrote: These lions are beautiful ! I don't imagine how a wild beast can live without a testicle (lost during a fight ? How such a wild beast can lost a testicle ?). The pain must be constant and despite of this, Caesar continues to be a lion... Yes, I know among the animals the courage, the bravery are completely some inconscious character traits but nevertheless I admire that. I am, we are all in front of our computer screens, and of course in a case of a medical operation/treatment  we resort to anesthesia and so on...
Sorry for these - absolutely no scientific but purely emotional - impressions... But "tough shit" !

 

(12-03-2014, 09:51 PM)'tigerluver' Wrote: I never mentioned size and weight, I stated better platform for comparison, different aspects. One can see A is relatively bigger than B, but any estimation of quantitative dimensions is futile. You're right on the exaggeration, and I already embraced that problem by adding that an opinion is not a final word. My point was that we're not any better apt at guaging size from 2D pictures than someone who's been there in 3D space, and I'll say it again so no one confuses my thoughts, photographers still are not the final word as opinions are opinions, but just a better word than us. Remember, like I always say, you'll rarely find me on one end of the spectrum. 

 

(12-03-2014, 11:14 PM)'sanjay' Wrote: @GuateGojira , I guess my and tigerluver's points mentioned above about photographer is not for each and every photographer. But there are few photographer who are more than "JUST PHOTOGRAPHER" and its my personnel experience. They are well informed about animals and work as volunteer with very good NGO's and other organization, for example, http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/ one of the best wildlife trust.

Some of them have spent their life taking photograph of a single animal from their(animal) childhood to death.

Definitely, 80% photographer are not in that pool. But they are not 100%.

Also, some photographer may not have that deep knowledge about wide variety of animals but they sometime have extraordinary information about some particular animal.

At least, they are better than few of us who have never witness any animal in wild.

 

(12-04-2014, 06:43 AM)'chaos' Wrote:

(12-03-2014, 05:27 PM)'Spalea' Wrote: These lions are beautiful ! I don't imagine how a wild beast can live without a testicle (lost during a fight ? How such a wild beast can lost a testicle ?). The pain must be constant and despite of this, Caesar continues to be a lion... Yes, I know among the animals the courage, the bravery are completely some inconscious character traits but nevertheless I admire that. I am, we are all in front of our computer screens, and of course in a case of a medical operation/treatment  we resort to anesthesia and so on...
Sorry for these - absolutely no scientific but purely emotional - impressions... But "tough shit" !


 

I figured "grimace" would be the logical candidate for a one nut wonder.  

 

(12-08-2014, 03:45 PM)'Pantherinae' Wrote: I have actually never been so interested in The notch coallition, it's a fantastic history and and amazing group of males, but I like The more southern males like Xakanaxa and Lions in The duba and okavango! I thought that Ron and Notch 2 where The same lion! But from what I remember when I saw them it was Notch 2 who looked The biggest! Not Ron when i see them on these pictures i recall them. But not sure notch 2 seems to have a larger and thicker mane, and who know's who's The biggest! They are all quite big and close in size! There are much bigger Lions than these i can tell you! But they are by far bigger than 2 other male Lions in the Masai Mara i saw!