Lions in Central and East Africa

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(06-09-2015, 01:43 AM)'tigerluver' Wrote: One important note. Stocky does not equal fat. Stocky, in a natural setting, is a robust specimen. Bears are very stocky, but they're the strongest mammalian carnivore in history. Running, and running fast, is not a problem for bears either.

If a predator can't run, it's dead. These hefty cats are dominant males, so they can run, they're athletic enough. 

 

Take it a step further, Kaziranga tigers are as Stocky as they come. They have massive skulls and huge muscles and mid sections. We know for a fact that they are anything but unathletic, proof comes in the form of the massive tigress leaping out of tall grass to the top of a elephant and the other is a massive male running through water about chest high and chasing down catle with ease. We know cats can get stocky but the end of the day, they can only be as large as nature allows. They can only scavenge some times, they need to hunt and they need to hunt large animals to maintain that size. Nature will not allow an obese animal, it will eventually dictate that animal needs to work and work hard to eat. Its just he way of the world for predators.
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