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Largest Living wild lions ?

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(01-25-2019, 06:49 PM)Charan Singh Wrote:
(10-13-2014, 11:20 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Here is again the same image, but without the entire page:

*This image is copyright of its original author

And for those that could say this is not the lion, well, check the credit of the picture (red square, please):

*This image is copyright of its original author

Personally, I will stick with the "true" record lion of the 240 kg "empty" male lion weighed by the late Dr Hu Berry, and in the last case, the 250 kg "empty" lion from Timbavati. No more "mythical" giants for me, thank you. [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
 

This photograph saying a 313Kg lion seems a fabrication by all accounts,
1) Comparing the size of the faces of the lion, man and child, the lions faces is quite average.
2) It is quite possible the face isn't that big as the body but animals front legs aren't massive either.
3) Child seated on lion also shows that lions height ain't great as to be massively high.

I would have assumed lion to weigh high if bone and muscle density were very high but that doesn't seems to be case here.


As with the heaviest wild tiger, the heaviest wild lions to my knowledge are eaters of Bovidae (buffaloes, cattle, etc.). Just as Hassinger's Bengal tiger weighed a whopping 388.7 kg (857 lbs) after eating a buffalo calf in 1967 (https://archive.is/20130202094033/http:/...nov95.html), two East African lions that killed a whopping 244 cattle and 3 donkeys at Issuna Village in Tanzania, 1963, were weighed at a whopping 700 lbs (320 kg) and 800 lbs (360 kg), respectively (https://books.google.com/books?id=i_JPAQ...edir_esc=y).

Lone, fat lion that consumed a buffalo by Deonne Kahler: http://deonnekahler.com/2017/10/lion-eating-buffalo/
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Largest Living wild lions ? - sanjay - 08-18-2014, 12:42 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-18-2014, 05:39 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - sanjay - 08-18-2014, 08:37 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-18-2014, 10:11 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 12:44 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 12:56 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-19-2014, 04:01 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 01:07 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 03:07 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 03:28 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 03:41 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 03:48 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 10:35 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-19-2014, 10:37 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-21-2014, 01:30 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-20-2014, 07:55 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-21-2014, 03:24 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-21-2014, 11:20 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-21-2014, 07:51 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-21-2014, 09:58 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-22-2014, 06:25 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-24-2014, 10:33 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-25-2014, 04:06 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-24-2014, 10:38 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-25-2014, 04:16 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-22-2014, 08:29 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-24-2014, 10:48 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-25-2014, 03:59 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-25-2014, 04:35 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-25-2014, 05:10 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-25-2014, 06:04 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-25-2014, 06:37 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - sanjay - 08-25-2014, 08:14 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-25-2014, 10:38 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-26-2014, 09:27 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - sanjay - 08-27-2014, 07:39 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-27-2014, 11:01 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-28-2014, 03:12 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-02-2014, 01:02 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-28-2014, 07:31 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-28-2014, 09:30 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-29-2014, 05:26 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-29-2014, 09:33 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-29-2014, 10:07 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-29-2014, 11:52 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-30-2014, 09:41 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-28-2014, 08:31 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-29-2014, 05:12 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-29-2014, 05:13 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-28-2014, 09:29 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-29-2014, 04:26 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-29-2014, 09:27 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-29-2014, 10:19 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-29-2014, 11:43 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-29-2014, 11:40 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-29-2014, 11:48 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-30-2014, 10:29 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-30-2014, 11:20 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - sanjay - 08-30-2014, 01:23 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-30-2014, 03:20 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-30-2014, 09:41 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-31-2014, 01:01 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-31-2014, 06:26 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-31-2014, 07:21 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-31-2014, 08:02 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-31-2014, 08:12 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-30-2014, 11:12 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-30-2014, 11:58 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 08-31-2014, 05:45 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 08-31-2014, 05:56 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-01-2014, 12:41 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 09-01-2014, 05:59 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-01-2014, 12:34 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 09-01-2014, 06:18 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 08-31-2014, 01:12 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-01-2014, 12:26 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-01-2014, 09:49 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 09-01-2014, 10:10 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-02-2014, 12:58 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 09-09-2014, 05:41 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-09-2014, 09:33 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Incogray - 10-25-2021, 04:25 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - SpinoRex - 03-23-2022, 11:27 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-02-2014, 01:18 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-02-2014, 01:27 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-02-2014, 01:32 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-02-2014, 01:43 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Amnon242 - 09-02-2014, 07:33 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 09-09-2014, 09:35 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 09-09-2014, 07:30 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - chaos - 10-13-2014, 06:43 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - BorneanTiger - 02-08-2019, 11:39 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - sanjay - 10-13-2014, 07:19 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 10-13-2014, 10:18 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 12-19-2014, 10:00 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 12-21-2014, 11:06 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 12-22-2014, 10:52 PM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Pckts - 12-23-2014, 02:35 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Sully - 11-08-2015, 02:57 AM
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RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Sully - 11-08-2015, 06:25 AM
RE: Largest Living wild lions ? - Sully - 10-11-2019, 11:31 PM
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