Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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(05-02-2017, 12:25 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: @Rishi keep posting I'm sure everyone loves it. 
Asiatic lions are by many me included very underrated, it wasn't until 3-4 years ago when I wisited an animal park in Sweeden called Parken Zoo I really could see how massive they where. I have been arround and working with an 250-260 kg African male lion. And this Asiatic male was every bit as big framing vise. An unbelievable animal. When he died of old age he weighed 191,5 kg. They said the zoo's veterinarian thought and estimated him to be arround 250 kg in his prime, and his female weighed and confirmed at 180 kg, the new male who's still young weighed 180 kg last summer. 

Here is a picture and a video of the old male. 

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That lion looks pretty strong, I agree I was typing in bulky and Asiatic lion, and I ran into stuff on some other sites, I think it is possible the Asiatic lion in its prime as a species may have been pretty strongly built or bulky being the word.  On this site it says a hunter that killed an Asiatic lion in 1840 thought the thing was bulkier than any tiger he'd killed before.  So that's considerable, and if Barbary's are related to Asiatic lions then maybe they were also built heavier. 

Now for the Lion of Kattywar or central Gezerat. In the B. S. M. for July, 1840, is a record of one there slain, of which we read : -——“ This Lion was 9 feet, with flowing mane, and altogether much more bulky than any Tiger I have killed

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A possible Barbary or Cape lion, the keeper says its heavier built and more muscular than his other lions, with a darker mane and coat.  Looks pretty strong to me. 

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