What most people think about the lion isnt true, the males do alot more hunting away from prides than state, biologist craig packer, george schaller and sunquist them all stated over 300 cases where male lions have killed bull buffalo single handedly, thats the difference from a biologist who studies them and the media who pumps out this lion king fantasy agenda.
420 lbs is just the average for lions, records of big lions are much heavier than any weights wild or captive gorillas have reached:
900 lb wild lion
The Salt Lake Herald from Salt Lake City, Utah · Page 1
East African Business Digest - Page 13
TWO mamuding lions which, since January this year, killed 244 cattle and three donkeys, were shot at lssuna
village in Tanganyika. The lions were found to weigh 700 and 800 lb.
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A game warden takes stock ... - Page 164
The weight of the lions was of very great interest in view of the assertion in a recent book (by Martin Johnson)
that a lion was shot weighing over 750 lb.
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295 kg lion Victor zenni bow record
284 kg botswanas highest record
282 kg sudan record lion J. K. Roberts 頭骨長375㎜
282 kg angola record lion G. Gladney
281 kg kenya record lion M. J Timmins
280 kg udanda record lion G. Prud'homme
280 kg Tanzania lion J. Reid 肩高104cm
280 kg transval lion C. V. Merriman
280 kg transval lion George Tsaparis
lion is light in colour and at 280 kg,
Bowhunting eMagazine -
Even a juvinile lion can weigh heavier than your average full grown silver back:
235 kg young male
Serengeti Lion Project – Report for December 2013 | A TANZANIAN TRAVELOGUE
Plus, the gorilla might have long arms, but its not as if lions have short arms either, they are the tallest of all big cats at the shoulder due to having the largest big boned frontal limbs:
The lion is part of the 4
big cats known as the genus Panthera, which includes ...
It is the tallest of all known cats reaching a height of 5 feet 5 inches
Lion | Africa's Big Cat
A lion is massive in height on all fours and the upper body:
Although lions are different from most big cats and evolved more like a dog/bear bigger in the front mainly because of troting in open ground evolved for longer and more solid arms, they still have all the leaping abilitys, agility, and explosiveness of the pantheras, a lion is the most gamest of all predators when he is enraged, the only thing will stop him is death:
on modern technology via electronic scales, and on video, lions are the heaviest of the big cat speices:
Lions are the most aggressive of big cats, raising them in captivity doesnt take away their possessive protecting instincts:
Out of the two the lion would be huge compared to a gorilla, a lionesses neck muscle would be the same as a gorillas, but because the lion has a mane, his upper body is bigger than even bears, it might not be all real bulk, but that gorilla or adversary doesnt know that. Even polar bears and grizzlys dont attain the size of the lions front maned area, thats the whole purpose, so lions can appear bigger without the added weight to slow them down, if they didnt have manes hyenas wouldnt scatter like the video, as shown they arnt afraid of 10 lionesses at a time, but a single male lion with a large mane looks as big or bigger than the largest type of bears:
I really dont know where you're getting that the lion will focus everything with his jaws and latch on like some cat, lions evolved away from all the usual tactics of big cats, they are their own genetically modified species evolving completely different with social structures...in almost every science literature people note upon observing them in their wild haunts that lions utilize their paws as one of their primary striking weapons, whether any type of species they attack:
Lions strength in striking is usually always mentioned with him:
No apex predator has the amount of practice on a vast diversity of prey as the lion does:
Power paws…A blow from the paws stuns the prey:
https://books.google.com/books?id=hTdSQXn4-dkC&pg=PA22&dq=%22blow%22+lion+antelope+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SozpVM3SOsiDoQTF3ILIDw&ved=0CBQQ6AEwBw
A male lions shoulders and front legs are so strong that it can cripple animals such as antelopes and hyenas with a single blow
https://books.google.com/books?id=HX4RejsIGEYC&pg=PA9&dq=%22blow%22+lion+antelope+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SozpVM3SOsiDoQTF3ILIDw&ved=0CBgQ6AEwCQ
Immediate deatii follows a blow from its tremendous paw, and the prey is then dragged off to be devoured at leisure
https://books.google.com/books?id=xQ0bAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA713&dq=%22blow%22+lion+antelope+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G43pVLOKJ8rroATg4oDgDg&ved=0CBYQ6AEwCDgK
for, by a single blow, the lion can rip up the side of a horse or a buffalo.
https://books.google.com/books?id=E0sDAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA114&dq=%22blow%22+lions+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-ZjpVKyZAoWyogTD_oBY&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAjjgAw
A single blow with a lion's paw or an elephant's trunk will put an end to his existence.
https://books.google.com/books?id=dmtEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA115&dq=%22blow%22+lions+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PZjpVPz6LMvmoATntIDYDg&ved=0CAgQ6AEwATjCAw
him, but he was quite dead ; the blow with the lion's paw bad fractured his skull.
https://books.google.com/books?id=uq4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA521&dq=%22blow%22+lions+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MpXpVNvXG8_coATT1ILwDg&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAzjKAg
The strength of a full-grown Lion in his prime is prodigious; he can fell an ox with a blow of his paw,
https://books.google.com/books?id=LfomAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1249&dq=%22blow%22+lions+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M5bpVLG5EZLaoATr6YDwDg&ved=0CAgQ6AEwATjyAg
a single blow of his powerful paw brought the antelope on its haunches, another struck almost at the same stretched its body lifeless on the plain
https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl8EAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA114&focus=viewport&dq=%22blow%22+lion+antelope+paw&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
Not only has the lion advantage of great courage—at least, except when comingin contact with those he feels to be his masters—and of great swiftness, but his strength is prodigious. He will fell an ox or an antelope with a single blow of his paw,
https://books.google.com/books?pg=PA210&dq=%22blow%22+lion+antelope+paw&ei=UZDpVMyaGsbeoASV3oHQDg&id=aOlDAQAAMAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html_text
or I have known him to break the spine of an ox with a single blow of his
tremendous fore-paw;
https://books.google.com/books?id=jx1fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA452&dq=%22blow%22+lion+antelope+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UZDpVMyaGsbeoASV3oHQDg&ved=0CA4Q6AEwBDhk
One enormous bound enables the lion to spring on its back, and one blow with his paw breaks its spine.
https://books.google.com/books?id=3ENJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=%22blow%22+lion+antelope+paw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UZDpVMyaGsbeoASV3oHQDg&ved=0CBgQ6AEwCThk
The only thing I can see the gorilla doing is out wrestling the lion, maybe use his gripping technique, but how far will that go? The gorilla could probably get a hold of the mane and start ripping in all directions, but again, what would that do? The lion is not going to be just standing there, the claws, jaws and force of his blows along with experience in handling all types of prey will most likely out game the gorilla...the lion can tank most of the gorillas blows, since the lion is use to fighting, he fights all the time, and if a leopard can rip off a 300 lb gorillas arm, no dought a lion who is retardedly stronger than a leopard could do alot more damage.
But as the feats go, what do gorillas have? Because lions kill tigers almost unanimously:
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Clyde Beatty is not only an entertainer, he is also a scientist, a competent zoologist,
an explorer and an adventurer. Braving African, Indian and Malayan jungles; braving
fever, disease and even death, the animal trainer, — along with scientist and explorers en-
gaged in research, — helps to broaden science frontiers in the 'dark lands". When not
employed with the cracking whip and the protective chair, he ventures forth to faraway
lands, searching for young beasts to supply the wire "prison", and searching for other
animals to be sent to zoos and museums.
Full text of "Selwyn House School Yearbook 1948"
Hence all his animals were caught from the wild, so he would know more about the lions prowess more than any one, and he states a lion will win against a tiger, I think a tiger would wreck a gorilla, being the longest and at sometimes heavier than some lions...50 tigers killed by lions, theres nothing gorillas have done that can come close to that feat.
