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(02-12-2022, 06:18 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: Based on the numbers provided by Smuts the empty belly weight for Dealt Keets lions have to be c.192 kg empty. Also 15 kg is near to bulging as i know.
Just one final stament.
The lions of Keet, it they had stomach content, will be "at least" less than 10 kg, so the average of 193 kg will be about 183 kg "empty" in males.
15 kg is average for a full grow male lions, they are recorded to eat 33 kg (and that figure could be more and the male lion was not empty when arrived to the bait).
So the figure of 35 kg for male lions and tigers is the same, with a hypotetical maximum amount of 40-45 kg, but that was not been actually recorded yet.