Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(02-22-2022, 01:42 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: All i know is that the lion sexes were mixed and subspecies unknown (asiatic or african) and had a humerus length of c.312mm and the Bengal Tigers also (c.314 mm). The heaviest tiger humerus was still in the average range for lions. What i noticed that tigers had constantly heavier left sided bones although the right bones were longer.

Yes you are right. Those studies have most of the time not detailed infos but arent useless. Anyways the difference are basically no differences. I dont know how major those differences are....

Just like I told you, too many variables. I can guarantee that all those specimens are from captive origin and the subspecies/population issue, which is important in the wild, but in captive specimens is a mess, as many times they are mixes.

Personally, bones can be used to study morphology and adaptations, like many studies made in fossils cats, but for robusticity they may need to be taken like a grain of salt, as captive cats depend of how humans rise them.

That is why I insisted in the skulls, because they are the only ones that we actually know that came from wild, and maybe a couple of bones from other specimens. Reply