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ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - B - THE LION (Panthera leo)

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( This post was last modified: 10-08-2019, 05:55 AM by GuateGojira )

(10-05-2019, 10:07 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: According to tiger experts Nyhus and Tilson, using the work of Yamaguchi et al., the mean greatest lengths of skulls of male and female Kruger lions respectively were 380 ± 3.9 mm (14.96 ± 0.15; n = 15) and 314 ± 3.2 mm (12.36 ± 0.13; n = 14): https://books.google.com/books?id=XFIbjB...&q&f=false

Actually Tilson and Nyhus are just the editors of the book, the chapter 4 was writen by Kitchner and Yamaguchi. By the way, the first part is obviously from the work of Yamaguchi, while the rest is like a copy-past from the chapter 2 of Kitchener in the book "Riding the tiger" of 1999, with just a few updated.

About the skull lenghts, I am not surprised (not the first time that I see these figures) as lion skulls are longer than tiger skulls as they have longer muzzles.

The observation of Edmund Heller is interesting, but as he don't provide any evidence or measurements must be taked carefully. However, Vratislav Mazák did measured 2 skulls from that region (and now a third one was published), and while one was average for the southern lions (just like the new skull published), the other was a big specimen, in fact, he says that it was the biggest he ever measured! I will put the data in just one moment.

Edit: For lack of time it was not posible for me to make the post about the Cape lions, so I will do it the next week. My apologies people. Disappointed
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RE: ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - B - THE LION (Panthera leo) - GuateGojira - 10-07-2019, 10:58 PM
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