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(06-15-2024, 10:29 PM)T_Ferguson Wrote: Well, for all those that talk about the size of these guys. K6 and Eronji
Yea K6 is big, but this is a bit of camera angle and their position aswell.
When walking towards camera, K6 is clearly closer to the camera and on higher ground compared to OE (look their pawn height position), so she appears bigger then she actually is.
If they would both be on same distance from camera and on same ground lvl, size diff wouldnt be that noticable.
She's still a big girl. It's rare for a lioness to be that close in size to a dominant male, and she's been seen alongside almost all of them in Sabi, and the same comparisons fly every single time. At some point we have to say that camera angle is one thing, but she is a VERY big lioness. I wonder if her size and her infertility are somehow related.
There was a maned lioness in Botswana, if memory serves her name was Mamariri, and she was exceptionally large. I think there was more than one, in different prides, and they were all in the Delta. She was really big, muscular, and even her roar was deep like a male's, but she was treated like a female by her pride. I don't recall if she was infertile or not, though.
(06-15-2024, 10:29 PM)T_Ferguson Wrote: Well, for all those that talk about the size of these guys. K6 and Eronji
Yea K6 is big, but this is a bit of camera angle and their position aswell.
When walking towards camera, K6 is clearly closer to the camera and on higher ground compared to OE (look their pawn height position), so she appears bigger then she actually is.
If they would both be on same distance from camera and on same ground lvl, size diff wouldnt be that noticable.
She's still a big girl. It's rare for a lioness to be that close in size to a dominant male, and she's been seen alongside almost all of them in Sabi, and the same comparisons fly every single time. At some point we have to say that camera angle is one thing, but she is a VERY big lioness. I wonder if her size and her infertility are somehow related.
There was a maned lioness in Botswana, if memory serves her name was Mamariri, and she was exceptionally large. I think there was more than one, in different prides, and they were all in the Delta. She was really big, muscular, and even her roar was deep like a male's, but she was treated like a female by her pride. I don't recall if she was infertile or not, though.
I know her and she was infertile. A guide told me that.
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IIRC inn case of ligers, their size is being attributed to that, them being hybrids, they don't inherit some sort of a grow inhibitor that is normally passed on by lionesses. Perhaps that's something that doesn't work properly (fully) in case of K6, might be due to a hormonal issue, might be not.
