Lions of Timbavati

[Mapokser]

(08-12-2023, 04:08 AM)Tr1x24 Wrote: @Mapokser not all individuals grow the same, some grow and develop sooner, some Iater. 

I said they grow more slowly as they get older, yes, on average, most of "frame" growing is done to ~4 yrs, while mass they gain up to 6 yrs, when they start to enter absolute prime years.

But i dont like this comparisons of prime males vs 3.5/4 yrs old, ok, they might not gain much in height anymore, but will get much more mass and mane, which brings alot for males to look overall bigger.

If we could see current RP males and Mbiris together, size difference would not nearly look that big.

Again, I said nothing about comparing their overall size/weight, In fact I explicitly said "RPM has a lot of bulking up to do, but speaking about height only..."

You say the size difference wouldn't be as big ( once more, talking only about height ), but how do you know this? Why is this specific male this big of a exception to grow a lot taller after 3,5-4yo? I thought he ( or his brother ) was even significantly smaller than the Birminghams attacking him, despite I never heard anything about these Bboys being big, in fact, recently one got in a scrap with the Ross males and indeed wasn't a particularly big lion, just a normal one.

So maybe the RPM just isn't that big while Mbiri male is known for his size, creating this disparity, unless you think such disparity can't exist between adult lions? With the Mbiris themselves I remember you saying Tanda Tula was claiming Mbiris were much larger than Nharhus because Nharhus were young and months later when the Nharhus were fully established you said Mbiris probably didn't have a size advantage anymore, as if the reason for the disparity was age and not genetics, but then Tanda Tula reported seeing Mbiris again in a visit and said the same thing as always "Mbiris larger than Nharhus".

Like if we put this guy:

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Who is dwarfed by his brother, this guy:

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Next to the freaking BDM who doesn't even have to get up or properly sit to look down on a female and when darted by Timbavati was claimed to be bigger than the lion they weighed at 283kg with a full stomach ( Ximpoko )? BDM who also had the 3rd largest skull ever measured:

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Won't we see a big disparity? If you agree to that, then, it's totally within reality that sometimes some males are much taller ( or even overall bigger ) than others. Reply