Lions in Central and East Africa

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(05-24-2014, 09:45 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: Interesting information. In fact, both males were already included in my table, and the difference between 235  and 237 is practically irrelevant.

What is interesting is how straightforward are her comments. She accept the fact that they scales are not reliable and that in the best case, the resulting figures are educated guesses. Even then, both weights are in the range of the adult males and the only two from the Crater, so I don't see any problem is including them in the list.

On the chest girths, that of Tom is really small, while that of Puyol is no larger than those from Kenya, for example. We could say that those Crater lions with chests of up to 132 cm are much heavier, but we most take in count that the figure of 235-237 kg contain stomach content, and a large one, according with the original source.

American scientists seems to have not a good eye for scales, in Nepal they were too small, in the Crater they are to old. Only Russians (The Amur tiger Programme) get the thing right, they use digital scales which are far more accurate than any spring scale used by western scientists.

Again, thanks for your data TheLioness, you are a great help. [img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
 

 

Even the lion weights in Kenya vary from the largest weight, to mostly under 190kg. It seems there is huge weight differnces between lions of the same location. 
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