Editing Lion (section)

===Size===
Among felids, the lion is second only to the tiger in size.<ref name=Haas2005/> The size and weight of adult lions vary across its range and habitats.<ref name=Smuts_etal_1980>{{Cite journal |last=Smuts|first=G. L. |author2=Robinson, G. A. |author3=Whyte, I. J. |title=Comparative growth of wild male and female lions (''Panthera leo'') |journal=Journal of Zoology |year=1980 |volume=190 |issue=3 |pages=365–373 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1980.tb01433.x}}</ref><ref name=Chellam1993>{{cite book |author=Chellam, R. |author2=Johnsingh, A. J. T.  |year=1993 |chapter=Management of Asiatic lions in the Gir Forest, India |pages=409–423 |title=Mammals as predators: the proceedings of a symposium held by the Zoological Society of London and the Mammal Society, London. Volume 65 of Symposia of the Zoological Society of London |editor1-last=Dunstone |editor1-first=N. |editor2-last=Gorman |editor2-first=M. L. |publisher=Zoological Society of London |location=London}}</ref><ref name=BCKM1993>{{cite book |author=Brakefield, T. |chapter=Lion: Sociable Simba |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szBm5kPeC-cC&pg=PA50 |pages=50–67 |title=Big Cats: Kingdom of Might |publisher=Voyageur Press |location=London |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-89658-329-0 |access-date=1 November 2020 |archive-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414114707/https://books.google.com/books?id=szBm5kPeC-cC&pg=PA50 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=nowak>{{Cite book |last=Nowak |first=R. M. |year=1999 |title=Walker's Mammals of the World |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |chapter=''Panthera leo'' |pages=832–834 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T37sFCl43E8C&pg=PR832 |isbn=978-0-8018-5789-8}}</ref> Accounts of a few individuals that were larger than average exist from Africa and India.<ref name=Guggisberg1975/><ref name=CAP>{{Cite book |last1=Nowell |first1=K. |last2=Jackson |first2=P. |title=Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan |url=http://carnivoractionplans1.free.fr/wildcats.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050529182212/http://carnivoractionplans1.free.fr/wildcats.pdf |archive-date=29 May 2005 |url-status=live |year=1996 |publisher=IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group |location=Gland, Switzerland |isbn=978-2-8317-0045-8 |pages=17–21; 37–41 |chapter=African lion, ''Panthera leo'' (Linnaeus, 1758); Asiatic lion, ''Panthera leo persica'' (Meyer, 1826)}}</ref><ref name="Smuts et al., 1982">{{cite book |author=Smuts, G. L. |year=1982 |title=Lion |location=Johannesburg, South Africa |publisher=MacMillan }}</ref><ref name=Sinha1987>{{cite thesis |author=Sinha, S. P. |year=1987 |title=Ecology of wildlife with special reference to the lion (''Panthera leo persica'') in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, Saurashtra, Gujurat |type=PhD |publisher=Saurashtra University |location=Rajkot |isbn=978-3844305456}}</ref>

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! Average !!Female lions !!Male lions
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|Head-and-body length
||{{cvt|160|-|184|cm}}<ref name=West2013>{{cite book |last1=West |first1=P. M. |last2=Packer |first2=C. |chapter=''Panthera leo'' Lion |pages=150–159 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_07noCPc4kC&pg=RA4-PA150 |editor1=Kingdon, J. |editor2=Happold, D. |editor3=Butynski, T. |editor4=Hoffmann, M. |editor5=Happold, M. |editor6=Kalina, J. |title=Mammals of Africa |year=2013 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=London |isbn=978-1-4081-8996-2}}</ref>
||{{cvt|184|-|208|cm}}<ref name=West2013/>
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|Tail length
||{{cvt|72|-|89.5|cm}}<ref name=West2013/>
||{{cvt|82.5|-|93.5|cm}}<ref name=West2013/>
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|Weight
||{{cvt|118.37|-|143.52|kg}} in Southern Africa,<ref name=Smuts_etal_1980/>{{break}}{{cvt|119.5|kg}} in East Africa,<ref name=Smuts_etal_1980/>{{break}}{{cvt|110|-|120|kg}} in India<ref name=Chellam1993/>
||{{cvt|186.55|-|225|kg}} in Southern Africa,<ref name=Smuts_etal_1980/>{{break}}{{cvt|174.9|kg}} in East Africa,<ref name=Smuts_etal_1980/>{{break}}{{cvt|160|-|190|kg}} in India<ref name=Chellam1993/>
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