BODY SIZE AND MASS OF NGORONGORO CRATER LIONS

[Pantherinae]

@Amnon242 

no I did not say that all lions where that big, but mainly that lions in serengeti can grow huge aswell. 

another example I can give. is the notch boys when I saw them they looked quite young and small, and smaller than their father notch, but resently I've been looking thru pictures and when they where adults they where much bigger compared to their father, ceaser in preticular is a massive lion, and you can look thru pictures from mara lions 30 years back and I do not think you will ever find a lion close to matching these boys. (jonathan scott said they where the most sucsessful males there he had known) and they are such a powerful coalition and they have learned to eat buffalo, eland and even hippos are a common prey and that's might be why they are another dimention compared to other lions in the mara.  
and by my own personal opinion and view of it I think the average Masai Mara male lion is heavier and more stocky build than the average Serengeti male lion

so it might be like this:
big prey=big lions (because they have a lot of food, for long periodes, insted of other lions wich eat well then rest and starts hunting again, lions which kills big can eat, rest, eat, rest and that goes on and on)   Reply