The Birmingham Males

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(08-13-2015, 09:28 PM)Pckts Wrote: Estimations are just that  like you said.
Seems a bit high for a Lion population but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
I usually saw larger weights to go along with taller shoulder height and body length in older males but exceptions exist.

Big is Big, usually a big cat is a big cub, sub adult, young adult and so on....

@Pckts and @"Majingilane", now that I have been making comparative images, an idea grow in my mind. Check how big are the "average" tigers and lions, a cat of 180 - 190 cm in head-body and a shoulder height of 100 cm is already a giant! I think , and is my new guess, that all these large tigers and lions in the parks are not "exceptional" specimens and is only the personal appreciation of the non-expert people and photographers what makes them think that those cats are "the largest that they have saw....ever!!!".

A recent post from Pckts, about a photographer saying that the largest tiger that he had saw was one from Sundarbans (sic!), corroborated, at some point, my fears about the "estimations" of the people. I can risk saying that probably all those large lions and large tigers outside, despite they "large" dimensions in pictures, probably are weighing around 200 and 230 kg and just one or two of them (the real large ones) scratch the 250 - 260 kg line. Is my personal guess, but definitely I can't trust in the appreciations of the people, especially when they are impressed. Reply