Largest Living wild lions ?

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(08-30-2014, 09:41 PM)chaos Wrote:

(08-30-2014, 01:23 PM)'sanjay' Wrote: According to me, prey density is important for increasing population. To attain bigger size they should prey on relatively large prey or inversely you can say those area where bigger size prey are available predators need more muscle power and big body dimension to take them down.

 

Intersting take. Larger prey combined with prey density/availability will produce
maximum size. A logical assessment, I do believe.

I would say it will produce big prides composed of relatively bigger lions.

But once again - variability in size among lions seems to be quite low. Some sub-populations are somewhat bigger than other, but the difference is probably not that big like it is among tigers (among bengals you have very small sundarban tigers in contrast to huge north-indian tigers, or among amurs you have quite small korean tigers in contrast to gigantic manchurian tigers). I do belive that it has something to do with the social/solitary lifestyle.

Guate or Peter are more informed on this...   Reply