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Lions in Central and East Africa

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Lions in Central and East Africa

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06-07-2015, 12:14 PM ( This post was last modified: 06-07-2015, 12:26 PM by GuateGojira )

Size of the East African lion:

Check this new image showing the size of an average male at the east of Africa, together with a set of measurements:


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All the measurements and weights came from my summary of data from that area (Valvert, 2015; atttached file), while the chest girths came from all the other sources, specially that of Pfefferle et al. (2007) which present the best set of chest girths from lions in the area. Although the other 4 sources are already included in my document, I did not take in count the chest girths, which now I regret.

The weights don't include the data from Bertram & King (1976) and De Almeida (1990), just the specimens in the tables. Check that I was able to separate the records in dates, just like the images of the tigers, in order to see if some change has been produced.

The next one will be the Southern African lions, stay tuned. [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
 

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Lions in Central and East Africa - peter - 04-27-2014, 02:54 AM
RE: Lions in Central and East Africa - GuateGojira - 06-07-2015, 12:14 PM



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