Size of Okavango Delta Lions and Lionesses

[Dr Panthera]

There are not many actual readings but I believe the lions from the Tsaro pride in Duba plains in the Okavango to be among the largest cats in the world, Derek Joubert a renowned biologist and film maker has studied these lions since the 1980's and wrote three books and made four films about Botswana lions, he states that these lions are the largest he has ever seen, his guess-estimate for the seven lionesses to total 1200 kg ( average 171 kg each) the two fourteen year old males that rule that pride and are significantly larger that the females might be well over 250 kg.
Bear in mind that this is a very particular pride that eat nothing but cape buffalo and they swim through deep water hours and they are extremely muscular and quite larger than their neighbors the Skimmer pride and the Pantry pride.
Pieter Kat considers the Okavango lions a bit smaller than the Kalahari lions and skulls/trophies records from the Kalahari are a bit larger than Okavango Reply