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(01-25-2022, 07:40 PM)Betty Wrote: For reference, the total length of an ordinary male polar bear is about 233cm. If the tail length of 8cm is deducted (the tail length of a polar bear is 8-18cm), the body length is about 225cm.
It is difficult to imagine that a Barbary lion can have a head and body length of 250cm, especially the tail length is only 75cm. In fact, hunters of the past tended to overestimate the size of large animals.
Exactly, and this is the point of all this. When Peace (1915) mentioned his lion of 250 cm in head-body and tail of 75 cm (325 cm in total length), he seems to be unnaware that this size is impossible for any modern lion. However if the 250 cm was actually a total length, the head-body will be of 175 cm which will be correct, but again, a tail of only 75 cm is too short. At the end, this was only my appreciation and at the end, the measurements from Peace are incorrect and unreliable.
No modern cat has measured over 221 cm in head-body measured in straight line in modern days. Head-body of over that belongs only to the giant Pleistocene great cats.
Which cat was it which was 221cm by the way? Was it an Amur or a Bengal?