Can someone explain this..

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(02-04-2015, 11:11 PM)'tigerluver' Wrote: The number I posted was from the same document with the faulty equation, so the 200/206/212 kg estimates must be disregarded and we've no data on that population.

 

http://www.cbs.umn.edu/sites/default/fil...ongoro.pdf

^^ That is packers studies of Crater Lions.

-The crater is only 25km west of the Eastern portion of the Serengetti
-Crater lions are severely inbred, they have had 7 breeding males enter the crater from elsewhere in the past 27 years
-There was a plague that wiped out many crater lions and then the next 3 sets of breeding males where probably immigrants from after the plague then after the 70s all breeding males have been born in the crater.
-Crater male coalitions have totaled 15 males and presumably no matter the coalition size, usually only 2 or 3 males will actually breed. That size of the coalitions has been one of the causes of the inbreeding since the nomadic males that have ventured in have not been able to dethrone the large coalitions.

No weights or description of excessive Lion size are given.
The fact that there have been lions from other parts that have entered and bred, shows that there would most likely be no difference in size between them and other Serengeti lions.

Its worth a read, if you guys get a chance.




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