The size of the Barbary lion

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This is an image with the only two sizes reported for the Barbary lion in literature:

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The image is self-explained, and we can see how ridiculous are those sizes. However, I guess that Pease (1915) made a mistake and the head-body length that he quotes, was in fact, a total length. In this form, the figures match very well: Total length 250 cm, tail 75 cm (head-body 175 cm) and shoulder height of 95 cm.

Here is the description from Gérard (1856), you can see that he just made a general description, not from a particular animal:

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Here is the description of Pease (1915), and you can see that he can't quote his source (maybe he forgot it) and this could be the source of his mistake:

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This data, and the previous reported by me in this topic, summarize all the data available about the size of the Barbary lion.

I have wrote to Dr J. H. Mazák in order to know which was the size of the largest Barbary skull that he measure, let's hope that he could send me an answer (I estimate it at c.410 cm).

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