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BODY SIZE AND MASS OF NGORONGORO CRATER LIONS

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BODY SIZE AND MASS OF NGORONGORO CRATER LIONS

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05-31-2015, 09:57 PM ( This post was last modified: 05-31-2015, 10:20 PM by GuateGojira )

Dr Craig Packer is the top expert on lions behavior and ecology, but it seems that he missed the measurements department for reasons that I don't understand. I have a set of new body measurements of lions in the Serengeti published in a resent book (2013; 12 males and 38 females), but when I asked him the way that he measured them (straight or over curves), he said that he don't knew about those measurements because he only take chest girth and no lengths. 
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I excluded the sample of lions from the Selous GR (also in Tanzania) because it is too away from the Serengeti landscape.

I guess, and is only "my guess", that the average of the Crater lions is similar to those of the Southern African lions, which is about 190-202 kg, depending of the sample, region and date.
 
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