Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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The size of the Asian lion - the ultimate data:

After several days of searching trough literature and the help of @peter and his scans, I finally was able to summarize all the reliable measurements and data about the size of the Indian (Asian) lion, in order to create one of my size tables. So, without more words, here is the result:

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Like all of you already know, only measurements between pegs were taken. In this order, I excluded the famous specimens from Fenton (1909):

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Why, if he seems so reliable? Well, the problem is that he measured his three lions over the curves, so I can't include them in the table, check this out:

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At the end, it seems confirmed the smaller size of this subspecies in comparison with other populations, but how close is to those of West Africa. For that same reason, I think that the Barbary lion, despite its large head, was no larger than other African lions and probably just slightly larger than its Indian brothers.

Finally, here is a comparative image between the average sized Asian lion and an average sized Bengal tiger, including the set of measurements that are presented in my table:

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I still use the name "persica" because it is the popular way to know these lions, but I believe that the correct form should be "leo", as this population, together with those of the north and west of Africa, are practically the same population/subspecies.

Let me know your comments and enjoy the data. [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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