Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(02-25-2022, 07:40 PM)SpinoRex Wrote: Recent Information about the male lion from Richard Kock

On Discord i was honored with some emails about the stomach intake AND body condition of the male lion, as some suggested he would be really really bulky with a good reason.




In all of his mails he mentions the mail lion to have an empty stomach, which makes sense based on the story as well. Also he replied to the one question regarding his email where he mentioned "little stomach content". Credits @Epic

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Body Condition

Based on the fact he was so heavy obviously i was interested in his body conditioned and asked the user to ask R.Kock about the condition of the lion based on a study. These estimation was able to do thanks to a study with stages. LION (Panthera leo) CARE MANUAL

The estimate was done with these pictures:

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Here is the answer by Dr. Richard Kock:

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So this is not a communication between you and Mr Kock? Is from another person that we don't know and, again, that we don't have any form to confirm if this is real? Just asking.

Even then, how much weighed that "little material"? Because certainly did not weighed 1 pound only.

And like Pckts clearly mentioned, "6" would be high for a wild lion, and this was a notorious cattle killers that probably had more fat, after all, less work and easy prey provide more mass. Other thing, in any part of those communciations says that this lion wasn't really fat but massive in terms of muscle mass, you should remember that big males may have also subcutaneous fat, like the big male of 225 kg measured by Dr Smuts.

So, nothing new for me in this communications, just a massive lion thanks for a living in domestic cattle and if we follow your idea that nomadic male lions eat more, this lion probably gorged himself so much that obviously was a massive beast, an abnormal specimen, an outlier like Dr Yamaguchi said. Reply