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Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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06-07-2015, 07:49 AM ( This post was last modified: 06-07-2015, 07:50 AM by GuateGojira )

Thanks peter, I am curious to see the data of captive lion skulls.

On the length issue, if there are more measurements "between pegs", it would be interesting to include them. On the weight issue, those ones in my table are the only one that I am aware, the lion of 306 kg quoted by Brakefield is a mistake as the real weight was of 255 kg. I know that we have those posted by "Spirit lion" some years ago, and seems reliable, but sadly, there is no way to quote them, as the source will be only the name of the avatar, and no other source.

 I have read the two documents of Fenton and the one of Harting (1896) quoting him from his post in "The Asian", and he only measured three males and two skulls. However I was not aware that those males were actually measured "over curves" until I saw the confirmation. However, something tell me before that the measurements were not in straight line, after all, how could be that a lion of 198 cm in head-body could have a skull of just 340 mm?

At this moment, I don't have measurements of captive Indian lions, apart from the weights published by Sontakke et al. (2009). Let's see what more data can we gatter, but for the moment, this is the best I can do, with the data that I have. [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]
 
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RE: Asiatic Lions - Data, Pictures and Videos - GuateGojira - 06-07-2015, 07:49 AM
RE: Photographs of wild lions - Apollo - 04-22-2014, 08:03 AM
RE: Lion pictures and videos - sanjay - 07-12-2014, 10:41 AM
RE: Lion pictures and videos - Apollo - 11-27-2014, 07:35 PM
RE: Lion pictures and videos - Pantherinae - 12-19-2014, 02:14 AM
RE: Lion pictures and videos - Pantherinae - 06-04-2015, 04:43 AM
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