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Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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02-10-2022, 10:35 PM

(02-05-2022, 09:53 PM)SpinoRex Wrote: In fact he just weighed 41 adult males in Kruger National park and the heaviest was 225 kg but had no stomach content. His sample generally lacked those big ones compared to the data provided by Roberts 1951 (132-251 kg, all ages n=17), MacFarlane and HuBerry

Smuts weighed animals with no stomach content, The lions of Roberts came from hunting records (is a second hand source) and there is no form to know if they were empty or not, Stevenson Hamilton provided weights adjusted for stomach content, and the lions from MacFarlane and Hu Berry were baited and included stomach content, the largest male of 260 kg probably weighed about 240 kg.

Interestingly, the average for the lions of Berry is of 190 kg including stomach content, while those from Smuts average 187.5 kg excluding stomach content. This may suggest that lions in South Africa were indeed heavier than those from Etosha.
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