[Bushite]

Here is a pic of the REAL Original Lion Kill:

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/tsavo/gallery_photos/z93658.jpg

They obviously made the Taxidermy casts smaller than they were.

[daku]

BIG difference, thanks

[El Sordo]

IIRC, the hides were damaged and the taxidermist had to scale the animal down to ‘make it work’.

Also, the fact that the lions did not have the typical male mane is one of the things that made them so dangerous. Again IIRC...

Without manes these lions could slip through the thorny underbrush more readily and be all sneaky.