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(01-17-2018, 02:20 AM)TheLioness Wrote: Some of the biggest lionesses I've seen from documentaries and pictures are usually from ngongorogo crater, Okavango delta and Kalahari. This is just my observation. I am curious what others think? I know from what I've read that the delta lionesses are said to be as large as the males, because of the environment they live in, lots of water travel and buffalo as the main meal. However I've seen large lionesses from Kalahari where the landscape is total opposite of the delta. Still a harsh environment but less and smaller prey and desert landscape.
Here is a lioness from the crater
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A lioness from the duba
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A lioness from Kalahari
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The Joubert's mentioned that in their documentary, they stated the lionesses were the biggest in the Okavango Delta, necks really thick powerful, as well the biggest female cats I've seen in captivity were actually lionesses. I imagine the male lions would be large too being born from the same lionesses. I believe for sure some lions in the Crater have looked extremely robust even young ones. I'm pretty sure Packer stated their chest size was equal to the averages of the Siberians.