Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(05-06-2019, 12:14 PM)Arctotherium Wrote:

(05-04-2019, 12:51 PM)Shadow Wrote: One study about American lions.

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Body Mass 

Calculations of body mass were performed as specified in the methods.  Results differ by method 
and by element (Table 5B).  Van Valkenburgh’s (1990) regression of m1 APD on body mass appears to 
be the most reliable, as it most closely approximates the average of all methods. 
Overall, the smallest body mass value for female Panthera atrox is 89 kg and the largest is 262 
kg; male values are 156 kg and 457 kg.  The overall average is 177 kg for females and 247 kg for males.  
Males are thus estimated to be 1.40 times larger than females. 
We determined a mean weight of 178 kg for wild P. leo males and 141 kg for females using 
recent data from Sunquist and Sunquist (2002) and established values from the body mass literature (Van 
Valkenburgh, 1990) as shown in Table 5B.  The average determination using these methods yields extant 
males 1.26 times larger than females.  As the underlying measurements are significantly different between 
sexes, it is no surprise that the calculated body weights for P. atrox are also significantly different 
between sexes (ANOVA p<.0001 in each case), as shown in the bivariate plot of body mass estimates in 
Figure 4.

Source:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281544339_Panthera_atrox_body_proportions_size_sexual_dimorphism_and_behavior_of_the_cursorial_lion_of_the_North_American_plains

Happened by mistake.

Well, when you quoted 2 times my message, I thought that you had something to say, but you shared just same links, which you have shared already many times before and there was nothing new in those. Btw that only link where american lions was mentioned, what comes to those 3 links. It gave quite same estimations about average american lion weight as that study I shared. Around 200-250 kg. Reply