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(12-24-2018, 11:39 PM)Pckts Wrote: Unfortunately the Lion study doesn't break down group scores the way the Tiger study does.
I also wish the Tiger scores were broken down by individual instead of pooling them.
A few things I found interesting but not surprising are...
-Big Cats become fully dominate specimens around the 6-10 range, these are the ones who will have their testosterone at their peak, they'll have had many battles throughout their life and have learned what it takes to hold a territory.
-Gir Lions have a higher sperm defects than the other lions and tigers tested "girs are captive" and that means they are more susceptible to birth defects and they also have lower testosterone levels which may be the reason why they have scantly manes and aren't as physical imposing as their African Counterpart.
-Even though Serengeti and Crater Lions have very similar test. levels, their manes still are quite different and climate plays a very large role in mane size, Crater lions have thick huge manes that grow over their shoulder quite often, my guess is the fact that the Crater is 10 degrees cooler year round than the surrounding Serengeti.
Well, i didn't understand what you meant by "breaking down scores". But in the first lion-study, they separated adult male lions from subadults with different icons. But none of those scores higher than 2.5 ng/ml.
Apart from that, I hadn't find one other study showing lion Testosterone level more than this.
I'd like to see if there is one.
And yes, I understand that the 6 year old cats are dominant and have their Testosterone level at their peak. So the average of 4 year old males (9.71 ng/ml) and 6 year old males(18.02 ng/ml) would be 14.0 ng/ml(14000 pg/ml). Still much higher than previously thought!
Also, I personally think tigers have more testosterone levels of all bigcats. Due to their great territorial aggression and behaviour...
