What is the largest extant species of lion?

Question

The liger, a hybrid between the lion and the tiger, does not count folks.

Answer 1

Favourite answer

There are Asian lions, African lions and Barbary lions (technically extinct now).

• Log in to reply to the answersPost

Answer 2

The American Lion was huge, maybe 800lbs.

• Log in to reply to the answersPost

Answer 3

It's Trevor the big lion.

• Log in to reply to the answersPost

Answer 4

There is only 1 species that is called the lion. There is more than 1 extant subspecies and several extinct subspecies, including the cave lion and the American subspecies of the lion. Because the cave lion and American lion both lived in cool climates during the last ice age, they were noticeable larger than the living subspecies. Because mammals generate their own body heat, and because large body size reduces heat loss to the environment, the cave lion and American lion were both about the same size and they are both larger than living species of lions.

Among living populations, the East and south African lions are larger than West and Central Africans and Asiatic lions.

• Bulldog redux

  Lv 7

  8 months agoReport

  What's up with the thumbs-downers?  And who cares, really?
  

• Log in to reply to the answersPost

Answer 5

All of the extant lions fall under Panthera leo, and the extinct ones (e.g. American lion) probably did too.

• Log in to reply to the answersPost

Answer 6

Panthera leo, what else?

• Chris8 months agoReport

  Subspecies*
  

• Log in to reply to the answersPost

Answer 7

there's only two unless something changed in the last ten years, am I'm guessing it's the African lion

• Log in to reply to the answersPost