Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(04-22-2019, 11:23 AM)Arctotherium Wrote:

(04-21-2019, 05:14 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:

(04-20-2019, 02:25 PM)Arctotherium Wrote:

(04-20-2019, 02:24 PM)sanjay Wrote: No Lion Vs Tiger Debate on forum, If you do again, moderator will ban you.
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@Rishi @peter @tigerluver @GrizzlyClaws

Sorry.
https://www.nakanune.ru/news/2017/08/29/22480970/
Cave Lions can grow 600 kg.

Please, be aware of the forum rules, and refrain to turn it into another lion vs tiger flamebait.

BTW, the inconsistency of the body mass calculation has been discussed over years, but we take the largest documented fossil records.

The largest Cave lion fossil record should reach the magnitude of 500 kg, and so far it is pretty clear that no American lion fossil or other later Cave lion fossil being larger than this.

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https://www.nakanune.ru/news/2017/08/29/22480970/




http://www.nat-geo.ru/science/694561-kladbishche-gigantskikh-peshchernykh-lvov-naydeno-v-bashkirii/
Cave Lions can up to 600 kg.

This is about that same issue in english:

http://russia-ic.com/education_science/science_overview/4453/#.XL1ktOgzZPY

I have to say, that when I look at big Kodiak bear weighing around 600 kg and knowing, that it is over 3 meters tall while standing on hind legs and when walking normally, shoulder height still 1,5 meters or even more.

Then I try to figure out an animal with shoulder height 1 meter said to be able to have same weight. And when looking at some ligers weighing 400 kg. I can´t help to get an image in my mind, where is 600 kg cave lion so fat, that it can roll sideways so, that legs not touching ground... :) I am really curious to see when official studies are published and what other scientists say. Now it looks like to be, that this 600 kg is only from Kosintsev. 

I am really curious to see more about this and see if I personally can fit it in common sense some way :) Reply