Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(03-04-2022, 02:58 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: Guate everything fine but with all respect a male of 163.9 cm, 172 over curves is defientely not an adult and some males from the other datas from Wilson as well (230 cm over curves). In the other document they wrote m instead of feet. Other than that the book is really accurate. The other botwana male of 183cm over curves isnt a adult most likely. Males of c.170cm are extremely rare/exceptional. Also i was asking for the source if the records mentioned by Pitman are the same as those mentioned by Roberts. Reliability is measured by various points....

That is not what the document states, lions as small as that may be possible, specially by the fact that we don't know to much about the lions in that region. Smiths and partners were specific in saying when animals were youngs or adults. Also, there is no information that says that those hunted lions were not measured "between pegs", except from those from Rosslyn Safari, Matetsi, which came from safari operatiosn and the weights may be inflated.

About this: "In the other document they wrote m instead of feet. Other than that the book is really accurate."
Interesting opinion, I think that is a good posibility and I will take it like that.


About Pitman is simple logic. Lions of 553 lb are certainly not common and the sample provided to Roberst certainly include them. This is the same case with the tigers quoted from Cooch Behar/Assam/Duars area in several documents, it do not say that were hunted by the Maharaja, but by logic we know that came from him and I do not duplicate the samples. I am 100% sure that those 5 lions quoted by Pitman from the magazine "The Field" are included in the sample of 10 provided by Campbell to Roberts. It is interesting that Pitman is a second hand source, that quote a document with no other details than the date, so based in Slagth et al. (2005) that information is менее надежные - less reliable as they do not provided any details and until we can see the real source of the information, which is the magazine itself, or at least confirm it in the table 36 from the book of Roberts, we can't be sure that those figures are actually real or correct. Reply