Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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Lions in the Kruger National Park - G.L Smuts | Uptade!

Since years many debated about the weights G.L Smuts provided about the lion in Kruger NP.

Let us analyze the data:

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The average weight males was 187.5 kg and for females 124.2 kg with a EMPTY stomach.

Here again the proof:

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Many argued about how heavy these lions would be without stomach content? Only BETRAM can give us the answer because Smuts quotes him. 10 kg and 30 kg were also recorded.

@Pckts therefore the 225 kg empty lion could be 255 kg in this case. 225 kg empty and normalnormal lions and tigers weight of 225 kg are completely different.

After a personal communication I got few pictures from Betram. Here are many classes of the stomach and how much you should substract from the weight.

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This gives us now a good view about how much weight was substracted. Looking at the average lion I think 5-10 kg should be the normal range in this case.

Adding this to the weight would result in a weight of around 195 kg for lions with a normal stomach. Without unhelathy animals... the lions would be close to 200 kg. Reply