BODY SIZE AND MASS OF NGORONGORO CRATER LIONS

[Pantherinae]

hello and great thred. 

I think crater lions might have such high average weight, looks as one of the most impressive populations of lions in Africa, on the 146 male lion wheiged in the crater, I've read the same people wheighing a 235 kg male aswell from the crater, and they said the sacle was a old or bad scale (can't remember), but said they had difficulties to belive it was a 90 kg wheight difference, I shall see if I can find it when I have time for it.

I see also a lot of discussions here about the serengeti and crater lions, but I just saw resently a large male lion from serengeti called blondie (?) wheing 230 kg, so both populations are impressive in therms of weight actually.

I'm with @Pckts on that the prey densety in seriengeti are higher, but that means more prey to choose from, and large prey are becomes less nessasery, and insted of hunting buffalo, they might think wildebeest, warthog, waterbuck and zebra, while crater lions have much buffalo and less other prey and might hunt buffalo more because they are forced to do so.
and you might can look at lions at duba plains which is by people said to be the biggest lions, they are captured on an island with buffalo as nearly the only prey ithem they have.

the biggest male lions these days are more impressive than they where 20-30 years ago IMO, from watching documentaries looking at pictures I look at modern lions today are very, very impressive. no data prooving it, but thats my own personal opinion!   


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