Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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@Stealthcat :

About your post #24: If I may so:

"The Indian cattle is also sometimes easier to kill, their cows are different, very heavy stomachs large with considerable mass in the mid section, yet very thin necks,  and the horns go backwards not forwards, so a large tiger could easily kill a huge Indian cattle with such small neck and throat area.   In contrast the African buffalo has a neck specially designed to resist the lions bite force, which it can contract the neck muscles and tendons like steel rods making it extremely hard to penetrate. "

You cannot compare the indian cattle (not the "domestic" gaurs) with the wild African buffalo (never domesticated). It's impossible...

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But if you want to consider wild bovids only: Asiatic buffalo and gaurs are bigger than African buffalo, that's a fact. On the other hand, perhaps African buffalo, living still in big herds have a reputation for being agressive (see ancient stories of explorers and hunters) that the other bovids haven't. To be confirmed... And I confess that the african buffalos, in my opinion, have the most impressive horns among all living wild bovids.

As concerns lions and tigers, by reading accounts and other accounts, in short, I must admit that the greatest tigers are greater than the greatest lions, the biggest tigers are bigger than the biggest lions. Not by much perhaps, but here is... And yes, as @peter says, at equal length the tiger is a little bit heavier. Reply