Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(02-12-2022, 06:18 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: Its pretty simple. A nonterretorial males doesnt have to share his food with the other pride members and therefore has significantly more meat available. Also lions dont have the same food intake as tigers thats for sure especially when we are talking about males. Based on the numbers provided by Smuts the empty belly weight for Dealt Keets lions have to be c.192 kg empty. Also 15 kg is near to bulging as i know.

Quote:The MDR of adult lionesses ( X bodymass=124 kg, N =95; Smuts et al. 1980) was thus esti-mated to be 5.3 kg/day, with adult males ( X bodymass=188 kg, N =41; Smuts et al. 1980) requiring 8.1 kg/day. Based on direct observations, females and territorialmales did not consume significantly more or less than the estimated MDR(8.1 kg), whereas nonterritorial males did (Table 4).

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Thats just my view ... feel free to disagree

Of course I disagree and is not because is your point of view, is because you are using incorrect information, and I know why you have these missconceptions.

First: Who told you that lions and tigers do not have the same food intake? We are talking about two animals of about the same size, the same metabolism and even then, there is still a person (Boldchamp of course...) in this world that believe that these two animals do not have the same food intake? What is the base of this?

Do you know that those amounts that you quote in the previous image about the daily requirements (5 to 8 kg) are just ESTIMATIONS? Those are just the estimated amount that an adult lion may need in a daily basis. Those are not real food intakes. Check the real food intakes of lions:

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This is from George Schaller (1972):

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And this is from Sunqusit and Sunqusit (2002):

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As you can see there is a big difference between the estimated daily intake and the real intake that lions actually eat. Also, the other studies (focused entirely in females) shows the variation on in food intake from 4 to 14 kg and this is depending of the seasons. But this do not affect the large population of lions, like in Kenya-Tanzania-South Africa where most weight figures are available, as they prey base is regular. Take in count that lions hunt more in a regular basis than tigers, a tiger can kill 1 animal per 7-8 days while lions do it avery 4 days and that is why while the food intake may look lower in some populations, is because they eat more regularly. After all, the prey base of most of lion habitats is much bigger than even the biggest Indian parks.

Now, check the daily estimation for tiger food intake:

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As you can see, is even less than the estimated for lions (5 to 7 kg per day for tigers). Now, check the real food intake of tigers, but take in count that contrary to lions, we only have two studies, one from Kanha (with Schaller) and one from Chitwan (with Sunquist):

From Schaller (1967):

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From Sunquist (1981):

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And from Sunquist & Sunquist (2002):

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As you can see, there are basically the same values, on averages and maximum, and even then tigers are bigger.  There are several studies of lion intake and its variations, while there are only two studies of tigers intake so the variations are unknown and definitelly exist.

Hope this point is clarified and stop following the ideas of Boldchamp. This is point clarified since many years ago but it seems than that crazy lion-fanatic still drag his lies and sadly persons like you belive in him. Check the data first, do not believe in third party interpretations. Reply