Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(03-05-2022, 02:10 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: Guate i am not copy and pasting the informations of other guys before i can understand the logic behind it. I doubt these lions were between pegs. But again the fact that a male was 230cm is just a proof that subadults were included and even between pegs a male of just 163.9 cm is 99% not a adult. That male of 183 cm depending on measurmeent method must be a non-adult as well as the 138 kg male. I looked nearly at every measurements and no adult was of that size.

I mean you have to agree at least that they are most likely not adults

As I said, we don't know the variations of the lions in that area. For example west African lions can weight as low as 130 kg fully adults and those from Loliondo are small too, so 138 kg could be an adult male after all, but we can discard the full sample if you want, after all with 202 kg on average definitelly those specimens included heavy stomach content and are from second hand source. Interestingly Smithers do not mention anything about the age, so they could be also adults in of old age, but he did not witnessed those measurements, another "less reliable" set of records.

I could not found the source of Wilson, it says in litt. so definitelly it will be imposible to found it, unless that we could found any document from Wilson after 1970; however this could be an adult lion with a very short tail and the weight of 158 kg suggest that adults were used in the sample. Reply