The size of the Barbary lion

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@Wolverine :

About #57: agree with you ! I believe that the Atlas lion's reputation was exaggerated because of its "luxuriant" mane, and of course, being so close to Europe, its history is much more linked with the European human civilisation history, - from the cave age to the XIXth century -, than any else subspecy of lion.

But as you told it, objectively there is no one reason to expect it to have been bigger than the other lion's subspecies. During the XIXth century the wild big preys were already much more rare than in the south of the Sahara. Reply