Largest Living wild lions ?

[Charan Singh]

(10-13-2014, 11:20 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Here is again the same image, but without the entire page:

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And for those that could say this is not the lion, well, check the credit of the picture (red square, please):

*This image is copyright of its original author

Personally, I will stick with the "true" record lion of the 240 kg "empty" male lion weighed by the late Dr Hu Berry, and in the last case, the 250 kg "empty" lion from Timbavati. No more "mythical" giants for me, thank you. [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
 

This photograph saying a 313Kg lion seems a fabrication by all accounts,
1) Comparing the size of the faces of the lion, man and child, the lions faces is quite average.
2) It is quite possible the face isn't that big as the body but animals front legs aren't massive either.
3) Child seated on lion also shows that lions height ain't great as to be massively high.

I would have assumed lion to weigh high if bone and muscle density were very high but that doesn't seems to be case here. Reply