Man Vs Lion Notes

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(11-29-2014, 10:49 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: I'm not sure if any of you are watching "big cat week" 
But the first documentory was Man vs Lion with Boone Smith

A couple of notes
-Male and Female Lion were able to run 29 mph and the fastest the female got to was 31 but they said lions have even been recorded at 45mph in the wild, which I would doubt, seems a little fast to me. But maybe the right lion can do it.

-Male Lion was able to pull with 1500lbs of force.

-Lioness was able to swipe over a piece of meat the was 9' ft high with a estimation of 10ft at her peek. 

-Lion muscle fiber are twice as small as humans so they are able to pack much more into the same size of muscle as well as being much denser than humans.

-Coalition of 3 males took down a juvenile hippo (about half the size of a adult female) with ease.

I would estiimate Bigondada (largest of the 3 male coalition in S. Africa) at about 400lbs when compared to Boone. But Mohawk and blondie seem to be close in size to him, especially Mohawk. 

-Bigondada gets driven off the carcass by one of the brothers in the same night, where he intially claimed a female and drove the other brothers away from her. 

Strange to watch a hierarchy shift in a matter of moments.

 

Check out this acrobatic lioness leap while attacking a giraffe.
http://youtu.be/3vdcflxY4tI
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