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(09-01-2021, 09:16 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: Obiviously I dont know 100%, but from seeing HRM with other unrelated males thru his life (bigger then ShyBoy, Dreadlocks, Talamati and 3T) its fair to say that he is the "gruop" of bigger lions..
(09-01-2021, 09:16 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: So when we judge the size of what we believe are ones of biggest around (Scar, RRM and DM in this case) , or above average sized males, size difference between them is prob very small or unnoticable unless they stand next to each others, unlike it would be if you compare bigger lion to smaller one.
I think a group of 5 males is way too small to make it representative group. Now Nhenha is argued by some to be the largest lion in entire Sabi Sands (which is already group much bigger than group of 5 males) and still guides which worked with Southern Matimbas and Charlestons are claiming that those are yet significantly bigger than Nhenha.
(09-01-2021, 09:16 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: So if we see a male in company of adult females and he is much bigger then them, its good indicator that this male is above average in size, unlike if different male is the same size of females or slightly bigger/smaller..
I wonder why then you belive Mapogos to be avarage size lions even through they were looking like twice the size of lionesses around them :o
(09-01-2021, 11:48 PM)Timbavati Wrote: measured as happened with the Black dam male who remains as the biggest lion that ever walk in Timbavati
There were no measurements made in Timbavati (beside Ximpoko and Mabande as far as I remember) and there is nothink whatsoever to backup the claim that BD was the largest lion who ever walked through Timbavati.