Modern Weights and Measurements of Wild Lions

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(03-02-2022, 04:08 AM)SpinoRex Wrote: 1) How are the lions of Timbavati 2nd hand sources if they were confirmed by the Reserve HQ and the Ecologist? Note these arent common as said by the LPD and they were the forefathers of the Birmingham Pride. This doesnt sound "common" to me.

2) Note that a male of more or less average dimensions (he may be measured even over curves, which is generally used) in Etosha weighed 260 kg just in a sample of 16. Or a young adult of 244 kg in Etosha. And various lions were heavier recorded in scientific literature (Kocks lion, Sm009, Homob males and so on). Note that Smuts lion was empty and he would be 245-255 kg on an full stomach like ximpoko

I know that the question is for Pckts, but I will like to provide information and an extra point of view that will help him to answer to you.

1) Those weights from Timbavati, why they don't publish them? I mean, they can create a post in they webpage, a bulletin and send the information like a short article to a magazine, so they can be checked by pers and accepted. Why we need to follow only emails? Why they deleted the original post in they webpage, in first place?

2) The biggest lion from Etosha, as far we know, was measured in straight line and was a little over the average, its weight included at least 20 kg of meat (240 kg empty). The young lion of Hobatere (not Etosha per se) was baited too (probably about 224 kg empty) and all the pictures of those lions show huge bellies, and that area is famous for cattle killers (check the reports and see the pictures, if you don't belive me).

The lion of Kock was cattle-killer and an outlier, the lion Sm009 a.k.a. Scar also included some stomach content, in fact no lion from MacFarlane was adjusted at all. It will be interesting to see the information of the Homob males, are they actually weighed or just estimated like many, many other lions in this topic that at the end were refuted? Reply