Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(02-23-2022, 08:25 PM)LoveAnimals Wrote: As I've done with Jaguars now I've decided to do one for Lions!
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First of all if you talk about "large" then the table you made are considering kruger lions as the largest cats in the world but the table has few errors. Some lions you included are from East Africa. @GuateGojira if you can add something i would be interested as well. I would devide in into "large sampled datas and collections".

- Weights -

Large Sampled Datas

• From Smuts we have a good data set with uncluding purely random males (no matter what condition). The average worked out at 187.5 kg on an empty stomach. How much these lions would weigh on general cirumstances? I think around 197 kg.
  

• From Dewalt Keet in 1999 the average for 16 non-infected Kruger males was 200 kg. The other 16 were infected and lived under much different circumstances and still were 187 kg. So this data suggests a normal weight of 200 kg
  

• The data given by Roberts includes 17 lions (with some subadults) but also falls in that range compared with the 2 previous datas
  

Collection

From the datas i was able to get i got an average of 195 kg (n=90) with at least more than half lions having an empty stomach. Looking at the general weights the empty weight is around 190 kg and the natural weight around 200 kg. The max weight is 253 kg on an empty stomach.


Sources: Smuts, Keet, Wenger, Pitman, Phinda, Timbavati, SanParks, Tintswalo, Hamilton, Selati, Roberts, Selati GR.


- Height (max) -


The average comes at 102 cm. The tallest wild lion was of 116.14 cm (+/- 1.8%), which means 114-118 cm(minimum-maximum) using an accurate method which just differed 1.8%(males) and 1.6%(females) from a standard measurement method.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication...ican_Lions

The tallest female in this study is a captive one of 110 cm, which is remarkable

- Length (max) -

The longest lion was 218.44 cm, which seems to be right. One can note that the longest asiatic female even surpassed the longest kruger female(192 cm streight) by measuring 208 cm over curves! Reply