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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 10 2012, 10:42 PM (13,336 Views) | |
| Taipan | Apr 10 2012, 10:42 PM Post #1 |
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African Lion - Panthera leo The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with an endangered remnant population in Gir Forest National Park in India, having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a possibly irreversible population decline of thirty to fifty percent over the past two decades in its African range. The African lion is a very large cat, with males weighing between 330 and 550 pounds and females weighing between 260 and 400 pounds. It is 8 to 10 feet long, not including the tail. Its most famous feature is its mane, which only male lions have. The mane is a yellow color when the lion is young and darkens with age. Eventually, the mane will be dark brown. The body of the African lion is well suited for hunting. It is very muscular, with back legs designed for pouncing and front legs made for grabbing and knocking down prey. It also has very strong jaws that enable it to eat the large prey that it hunts. ![]() Baurusuchus pachechoi Baurusuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It was a terrestrial predator and scavenger, about 3.5 to 4 meters long. Baurusuchus lived during the Turonian to Santonian stages (90-83.5 million years ago) of the Late Cretaceous Period, in Adamantina Formation, Brazil. It gets its name from the Brazilian Bauru Group ("Bauru crocodile"). It was related to the earlier-named Cynodontosuchus rothi, which was smaller, with weaker dentition (Bonaparte, 1996). The three species are B. pachechoi (Price, 1945), B. salgadoensis (Carvalho et al., 2005) (named after General Salgado County in São Paulo, Brazil) and B. albertoi (Nascimento & Zaher, 2010) (named after Dr. Alberto Barbosa de Carvalho, Brazilian paleontologist). Its relatives include the similarly-sized Stratiotosuchus from the Adamantina Formation, and Pabweshi, from the Pakistani Pab Formation. Prehistoric crocodiles weren't necessarily restricted to river environments; the fact is that these ancient reptiles could be every bit as diverse as their dinosaur cousins when it came to their habitats and lifestyles. Baurusuchus is an excellent example; this South American crocodile, which lived during the middle-to-late Cretaceous period, possessed long, dog-like legs and a heavy, powerful skull with the nostrils placed on the end, indications that it actively prowled the early pampas rather than snapping at prey from bodies of water. By the way, the similarity of Baurusuchus to another land-dwelling crocodile from Pakistan is further proof that the Indian subcontinent was once joined to the giant southern continent of Gondwana. Size and Weight: About 12 feet long and 500 pounds _______________________________________________________________________________________
Edited by Taipan, Jul 11 2017, 12:26 PM.
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| Ursus panthera | Sep 7 2012, 04:08 PM Post #16 |
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The lion would easily win by striking hard with its paws crushing the reptile. |
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| Jinfengopteryx | Sep 7 2012, 04:47 PM Post #17 |
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Isn't that a bit exaggerated? |
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| Black Ice | Sep 7 2012, 07:43 PM Post #18 |
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Tyrant has explained stuff like that like 100 times, the only way the lions mounting the croc is by ambush. Tyrant explained this whole superior agility thing. |
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| Black Ice | Sep 7 2012, 07:44 PM Post #19 |
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That........ Was stupid. |
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| Carcharadon | Sep 7 2012, 08:20 PM Post #20 |
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Are you kidding? Baurusuchus is far too durable to get killed by even the hardest strikes from the lion's paws |
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| Ursus panthera | Sep 7 2012, 08:25 PM Post #21 |
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there was nothing stupid about it, this is just fact |
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| Carcharadon | Sep 7 2012, 08:28 PM Post #22 |
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How was that a fact? The lion's paws cant crush baurusuchus, the reptile could crush the lion by clamping its jaws on the felines neck |
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| Black Ice | Sep 7 2012, 08:28 PM Post #23 |
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"it could crush croc with its paws" That doesn't spell stupid in big bold lettering? That wasn't a fact. That was a biased claim. |
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| Ursus panthera | Sep 7 2012, 08:31 PM Post #24 |
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The average lion could easily generate 1 ton+ of force with its swipe |
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| Black Ice | Sep 7 2012, 08:34 PM Post #25 |
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If you seriously believed that rumor then I might as well believe that wolves are mindlesd bloodthirsty killers. But seriously, that rumor was a lie n even if it was true then they wouldn't need to bite to kill, they would just hit their foe once. |
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| Ursus panthera | Sep 7 2012, 08:36 PM Post #26 |
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This is not a rumor i have seen a lion swiping and know what it is capable of |
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| Carcharadon | Sep 7 2012, 08:36 PM Post #27 |
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if its not a rumor can you show me proof or a source stating this? |
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| Black Ice | Sep 7 2012, 08:37 PM Post #28 |
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Then you should know nothing is ever killed from a swipe now shouldn't you? |
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| Ursus panthera | Sep 7 2012, 08:49 PM Post #29 |
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You are wrong paw swipes kill. |
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| Black Ice | Sep 7 2012, 08:50 PM Post #30 |
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Nope your incorrect. Show proof of a lion killing something as large or larger with a paw swipe. |
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