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04-24-2015, 12:06 AM( This post was last modified: 04-24-2015, 12:19 AM by Amnon242 )
(04-23-2015, 09:25 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: A shoulder height of 4.5 ft (137 cm)????????
Jajajajaja, not even the giant Panthera atrox or the Ngandong tiger were so tall at the shoulders!!! [img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Exactly, tigers (bengal, amur) and lions are aroud 1 m tall (lions seem to me to be slighthly taler than amur tigers - perhaps optical illusion caused by mane and more upright posture). Eveybody can draw a line at a wall in height of 1 m...and now imagine a felid of this height....even 1 m height means huge felid.
btw tiger and lion fans are the same - we have tendency to be not very realistic when it comes to size of our favourite animal :)