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Guys, I think we have enlarged this theme of the 280/250 kg lion too much. There are other larger males on record (hunting ones, at least), so there is no point here.
I think that we should return to the point of the topic, which is the largest subspecies/population of lion in the present world.
I still think that the lions from Zimbabwe are the largest, according with the available data, although those from South Africa, overall, are very close to them.