BODY SIZE AND MASS OF NGORONGORO CRATER LIONS

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(03-09-2015, 02:23 AM)'Amnon242' Wrote:

(03-09-2015, 01:44 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: No way to know for sure, but its probably safe to assume they are the same as any other Serengetti Lion averages.


 

No. They are around the size of kruger lions, probably somewhat bigger. Serengeti females are 104 kg.

 

 

Until somebody weighs one or eye witnesses who have seen both gives proof of this, that is not a correct statement. They infact are Serengetti Lions. They come from the serengetti and as recently as 30 years ago, they had imported from the serengetti to the crater. It is far more likely that they're going to be the exact same as Serengetti Lions. 

They do have a dense population of Buffalo there but that doesn't matter since they hunt Wildabeast and Zebra far more often there. So even if you were to say they eat more than other Lions elsewhere, you can only add so much mass to a body that is the same dimensions as other serengetti lions. 30 years is not enough time to adapt drastic evolutionary changes, and the fact that prides and coalitions are so large and inbred that they have to share food with lots of mouths would also put a damper on the idea of them being extremely large. I just don't see very much weight differences from place to place when comparing African Lions. They are usually very close to each other and the weights generally show that.

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