Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

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(02-06-2022, 12:44 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: Information regarding Robert kocks 272 kg empty stomach lion revealed by a user on Discord named "YusufTutWlan"
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Cattle killers are known to be large, fat and evasive, just like man-eaters. Check the cases of the Tsavo and the Mfuwe lions. We would like to see measurements of the skeleton, that will put weight to the argument, but even then now I understand why Dr Yamaguchi ignored this lion when he compare the biggest lions and tigers in the book of 2010, he consider this specimen as an outlier, a phenomenon and this support my point of view that as this animal was not normal it should not be included in the tables. I will save this email for future references on this.

A skull of 387 cm is not a record on the lion overall data, but definitelly it is for a lion in East Africa. Roosevelt says that is doubthfull if any skull over 15 inches existed in East Africa, and this is supported by the fact that from 15 skulls reported by Roosevelt and 20 reported by Allen and Hollister, the longest was of 380 mm. The zygomatic wide of 267 mm is trully exceptional, as the biggest in that list from East Africa is of 255 mm. This lion was truly a giant and definitelly an outlier specimen.

On the length, that is certainly only an estimation and should be taken like that, not a real measurement at all. Lions over 300 cm are very rare, and from realy big samples, but may happen. Now, in East Africa the lions had relative longer tails than those from South Africa, so a 300 cm lion in Kenya will be smaller than a 300 cm lion in Kruger, for example. 

Thanks for sharing this data. Reply