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06-01-2015, 09:02 AM( This post was last modified: 06-01-2015, 09:04 AM by GuateGojira )
Thank you Tigerluver. So my guess of 202 kg as average, seems accurate.
In fact, those weights (192 and 211 kg) are about the same than the lions captured by Dr Loveridge in the Hwange NP, Zimbabwe, which are also very large. With a sample of four males, he get an average of 199 kg (range: 169 - 211 kg), which seems very impressive for lion standards (Loveridge et al., 2009). Here is the picture of his largest male:
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This is the male of 211 kg, and its huge, probably over 2 meters long.