Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(02-23-2022, 03:18 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: I personally think a chest of 130cm in generall isnt average especially talking about a whole population. Did Packer record a chest of 143cm? Or was it 134 cm? I remember reading both numbers. The average lion of around 200 kg has an average chest girth of around 125 cm. 

Exactly because of those reasons tigers cant survive in africa. Alone a tiger has little to no chance and low survival ability and needs a lot of food. Unless they come "along" with lions a bit (some alliances or mating with lions). But that means bad news for male tigers most of the time.

Also i was checking some weights recently and found some infos about that 272 kg lion from Namibia(Etosha), he was at the stage of death before being killed. I thought it would be interesting for many here(Will post it on a different thread). This male lion was like Ximpoko the forefather of a huge male lion coalition (Probably even bigger than the birimingham boys).

He had a paw diameter of 23cm! And here the full stor of him explained! (Original language is dutch): http://peterjasie.co.za/wallie-els.html

You are right, average chest girths in male lions is between 116 to 126 cm. Only those from Namibia are of 132 cm but from an small sample.

Yes, he told me 143 cm in his new email. I remember the old email that said a range between 127 - 134 cm, but the new one that he send me is between 120 - 143 cm. Maybe is a typo, maybe this is the real range, I don't know honestly.

About the lion "Castor", is good to know that there is information about it, but I doubt about that weight of 272 kg. I mean, is not quoted by anyone, there is no record of him, we don't know if it was actually weighed. In fact, in the article that you posted do not mention anything about it. Lions in that area, as far I know, were not captured until the study of Dr Hu Berry and his heaviest male was of 260 kg (including stomach content). And finally, the only image that mention the weight is a random image with no source, so it is unreliable unless than someone can track the original document, study and the author of it.

People use to see an image in the internet and automatically accept it, but image can be fake too, so until the original source of that claim is not presented, we can't accept that this lion was actually weighed and not just estimated, IF that even happen. Reply