Size comparisons

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I made quickly one comparison photo since I haven´t done those in some time. Not the best possible, but maybe interesting for some.

What comes to shoulder height it was tricky because of mane. I marked the spots which I used, in shoulder height tiger has 1,5-2 % more than lion. Then again from tip of the nose to rump lion has approximately 1% more. Tiger in photo is maybe in slightly more diagonal position when looking at hind legs and front legs but not much, if in same position as the lion it might have same nose-rump length or 1-2% more than the lion in the photo. Tigers mouth is open and it makes its head to look bigger when looking briefly.

Anyway, not the perfect one either, but I tried to make a comparison so, that shoulder height and body length same while not changing aspect ratio of original photo in order to maintain natural appearance of these individuals. Lion is Notch so even though not the biggest lion from East Africa, most likely above average even though here scaled very close to average shoulder height in comparison with average shoulder height of Bengal tigers. Average used for Bengal tigers 100 cm while for East Africa lions it as 99 cm and what comes to body length I considered as average 190 cm for Bengal tigers and 184 cm for East Africa lions, all these from charts of @GuateGojira.

And as said, when looking at body length, that tiger suffers a bit from angle, when it should be 3% longer it´s now 1% shorter. With some other photos it would be possible to be more precise, I wanted now to do just a quick photo pair with relative small margin of error in limited time to use.

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