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(03-29-2022, 11:08 PM)genao87 Wrote: that is how much it truly weigh?? i thought it was much more than that.....the average. i mean that is not much more than todays Tigers. so the Bornean Tiger grew the largest then? since the estimates are insane so far
You need to see the entire context of the figures. Check this:
Average lion - Panthera leo: 194 kg (South Africa, by me)
Average tiger - Panthera tigris: 201 kg (Indian subcontinent, by me)
Average Panthera atrox: 256 kg (Christiansen & Harris, 2009)
Average Smilodon populator: 304 kg (Prevosti & Vizcaino, 2006)
All these values are for males only, although we need to know that in the values of Smilodon are included all the specimens, which certainly included females, so for "males only" will be a higher value. Also it did not include the estimate for the new specimen MNHN-P 957 which represent a huge specimen.