Masai Lion Images Collection

Masai Lion images - The Masai lion or East African lion (Panthera leo nubica syn. Panthera leo massaica) is a lion subspecies in eastern Africa. The type specimen is described as being from "Nubia". The subspecies includes previously recognized subspecies like massaica, which was initially described from the Tanganyika Territory in Eastern Africa. (Wikipedia)

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Masai Lion Images

By Joachim Huber, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22493518

By Christopher Michel - http://www.christophermichel.com/Travel/Masai-Mara-Kenya/i-gcXDVf7/A, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39239586

By derivative work: Escarlati (talk)Lions_on_rock.jpg: William Warby from London, England - Lions_on_rock.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5236463

By JULIAN MASON - http://www.flickr.com/photos/meandmyshadow/3520716712/sizes/o/in/photolist-6n7Aqh-6n7DcW-6n3zEX-6n7LKE-6n2j4x-ft3oc-9a9kD-4kf6fr-4kja1U-ft3hV-ft4EA/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30242421

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Neumann first described the Masai lion as being less cobby with longer legs and less curved backs than other lion subspecies. Males have moderate tufts of hair on the knee joint, and their manes are not full but look like combed backwards.
Male East African lions are generally 2.5–3.0 metres (8.2–9.8 feet) long including the tail. Lionesses are generally smaller, at only 2.3–2.6 metres (7.5–8.5 feet). Lions, male or female, have a shoulder height of 0.9–1.10 metres (3.0–3.6 feet). In weight, males are generally 145–205 kg (320–452 pounds), and females are 100–165 kg (220–364 pounds).
A male near Mount Kenya weighed 272 kg (600 pounds) (Nowell and Jackson, 1996). As such, it would have been heavier than average Southern African lions (Kalahari, Southeast or Southwest African lions) that weighed under 230 kg (510 pounds), but not any exceptionally large Southern African lion that weighed above 272 kilogrammes.

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