Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(02-25-2022, 10:54 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: When he wrote the email to you and could you quote his exact statements?

Also this are the specimens for the southern kruger lions from keets study (infected ones)

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I already saw those figures, thanks to "The Lioness", but the average figure for those 16 males result in about 170 kg, so is not the same as the one stated in the document. Now I am confuse about that document itself.

Like I asked before, do you have the original paper, or only the abstract, like me? It is interesting that there is no place where to get the original document, so I need to ask, is this abstract from a real published paper? Maybe Dr Keet could provide the weights from the norther region so we can compare it with these ones from the South.


About the email of Dr Packer, it was a communication from 2014 and his statement is this: 

"We have never published anything on the sizes of the Crater lions, though someone named Yamaguchi once cited our data in a comparison of lions and tigers. The largest male was 143 cm; the smallest adult male was 120 cm."

That is what he told me, in March 17 2014. Reply