Size comparisons

[Wolverine]

@Jimmy , you are real treasure of this forum. From your excellent images could in my opinion be made following conclusions:

-The neck of the cape buffalo is 9% thicker than the neck of gaur despite the fact that gaur is almost 30% more massive. In my monitor I measured the thikness exactly where you draw the lines - its 2,1-2,2 cm for the gaur, while for the cape buffalo is 2,3-2,4 cm. The difference of thikness - 0,2 cm = 9%. 

- On the base of images could be calculated that this 9% mean that the neck of the gaur is 4,7 cantimiters thinner in diameter than the neck of the gaur is its narrowest place. If we assume that your cape is 1,60 m tall, shoulder high is 70 mm in my monitor, than we make calculation 70:3 = 35, than 160:35= 4,7 cm. 

Are this almost 2 inches neck significant diference? Yes, I think. They could allow or not allow the jaws of the big cat (tiger or lion) to rich the traheya or artery of the herbivore or not.

Also here we forgot about females. Due to probably larger sexual dimorphism of the gaur for females the difference of the neck thickness is even larger. Its temptating to say that female gaur has a neck structure of large antelope despite the strong body. That's way in this video this adult female gaur is so easily strangulated by tiger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMv9TtEjVRg

while lions despite the fact that sometimes they make throath strangulation of cape buffaloes in the majority of cases they prefer to suffocate the buffalo by getting its nose, the traheya is too deep in the flesh. Like here:

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