The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

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(08-25-2020, 06:27 AM)Stripedlion2 Wrote: 154kg is pretty large for a female cat nowadays . And I think Wild  bengals as A whole average 200kg but mainland tigers average 220kg .

You are right, 154 kg is very big for modern standards, specially if we take in count that the modern tigresses and lionesses (in the biggest subspecies/populations at least) aveage between 130 - 140 kg.

At this moment, using the largest and most reliable sample of anyone at this moment, I fount that male Bengal tigers overall average 200 kg (n=166) and in mainland only average 210 kg (n=160), however many specimens between 150 - 180 kg were included and now based in "Field Guide to Age Tigers" from Jhala & Sadhu (2017) we know that those specimens were incorrectly clasify as "adults" by the hunters (they used methods that were not very reliable, even Brander recognized that). So excluding those males the average will be 214 kg (n=139; but this excludes the sample of 42 males of Brander as he don't present the individual specimens, so we can't identify each one to eliminate the subadult ones) for "adult" males over 180 kg. Now, using only scientific records, the adult male tiger in mainland average 220 kg (n=16), the sample is much smaller, but at least we know that all the specimens are 100% adults. Reply