Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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(10-18-2019, 11:38 PM)lionjaguar Wrote: You were saying that Asiatic lions were smaller from measuring weight. How about comparing other measurements beisdes weight? Which one is bigger cats? Don't forget African lions, barbary lions and cape lions.
I heard lion is the second largest cats all the time.  I always notice that male lions looks bigger than other cats in sanctuary, circus, and zoo when they are next to other cats. Why lion is considered as the second biggest cat after lion looks bigger than any other cats. They are lighter in weight, and people are making them as the second biggest?

I allready explaned to you that the "length and height" measurements are important to get the size of an animal, but are problematic if you don't know the method used, which may be "between pegs" or "over curves" with its infinite forms of been taken.

Captive lions look bigger because of the mane, that is very common fact in captive animals, but if you look they body sizes lions are always smaller than Bengal and Amur tigers. Lions have longer heads and adding the effect of the mane, they look impresive at the side of any cat, but is just an illusion.

Lions are second to tigers because of both, body size and weight. Using only measurements "between pegs" or in "straight line", the Amur and Bengal tigers have a slight advantage in body length on average, although the biggest lions are also slightly taller. So like Dr Hunter (2015) says: "The Tiger is the world's largest cat by a small margin". Using measurements "along the curves" and specially the new method of ALPRU, the lions are of the same size or even longer, but those measurements are unreliable as do not show the true size of the animals. The best example are the Hobatere lions, which shows head-body lengths of over 240 cm, while the picture of the animals shows males of no more than 200 cm, maybe even less! 

So it is not just weight, is also body size. Check this old images that I have, you can see the diferences in body size, not only weight, between the largest tiger populations and all the lion populations as a hole.

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There is some information that need to be updated, for example, I think that the lions from Southwest Africa are slightly heavier because of new weigthts published, but the measurements do not change. Reply