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(07-24-2020, 06:15 PM)Stripedlion2 Wrote: What’s the biggest sized giraffe a lion can kill alone? And can a big enough tiger kill a 1700kg gaur .
Although there are records of lions killing full grow adult giraffes, no one has ever weighed the carcases, so for the moment, is impossible to know the weigtht of the biggest giraffe that a single lion can kill.
About the tigers, although we know that the biggest gaurs killed by tigers did weighed 1,000 kg, we don't know if they could kill a bull of 1,700 kg. In fact, we don't even know if gaurs actually reach that huge weight, as the biggest gaur recorded from India weighed 1,106 kg (n=11), while a single record from Cochin, China, mention a bull of 1,225 kg "clean" (sic!), If we believe in the record from China, then both of these specimens were apparently exceptional and normally the bulls do not weight that much. I guess that a figure of 1,700 kg may belong only to the biggest bisons in the Pleistocene of North America, or may be an exceptionally big bull of domestice cattle.
Maximum size of prey that a single male lion or tiger can kill
