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[GuateGojira]

@Dr Panthera, good post and very helpful. However, I address a few corrections for your post on the Dwarf great cats:

1. The heaviest Asiatic lion on record came from a male hunted by the emperor Jahangiri and weighed 255 kg, not 330 kg. Emperor Akbar never recorded any lion measurement or weight. Check that this record is from 1623 (Divyabhanusinh, 2005).

2. The heaviest Indochinese tiger recorded by Bazé was a male of 570 lb, or 259 kg, not of 270 kg like you stated.

3. I am not aware of any "wild" Indochinese tiger weighed by Dr Smith. The only record came from a "captive" specimen of 170 kg.

4. The heaviest Amur tiger recorded by scientists at this day is a male of 212 kg named "Luk", it was captured and reported by the Russian team of The Amur Tiger Programme.

5. I don't advice to state such a radical position against the hunter's records. Some of them, like those of Brander, Cooch Behar and Hewett, for example, are very well recorded and are considered reliable. It is true that some records are inaccurate, but the same can be said from the modern ones, with scientific books STILL stating lengths of up to 180 cm for leopards measured by scientists in the field, for example. If we make a deep investigation, you can be surprised about how accurate were some old records in comparison with moderns studies.

Hope this helps to update your article.

About your post about the Barbary lions, I most congratulate you, very well done and accurate.

Greetings and cheers. Reply