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Other video, from a Snow leopard, been measured in straight line:

First, they hold the tape straight, like it should be:

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Later, one person push it to the body, curving it, but just in one point, not in all points:

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However, another person seems to correct it (I guess) and the tape is again hold in a straight line:

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Again, they measured the animal in straight line:

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The person seems to be pressing the tape here, but it is probably because they are taking the head-body. Still, it is in straight line, barely, if any, curved:

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Someone could say that even here, there is a curve, however, take in count that the animal is not stretched, just positioned in a straight line. So, the single "curve" that may exist is compensated by this fact, given a result quite close to a measurement between pegs, like Dr Sunquist clearly states in his emails.

It seems that the therm "along the curves" in the modern scientific world just means that the tape is in the animal itself, in the flesh, but in any moment we must think that it means that the tape is been pressed in all points, in all the cases. Here we have a tiger and a snow leopard been measured like Dr Sunquist mentioned. Let's add the young Nepalese male tiger and some leopards and cheetahs in Africa that are been measured like this, with the tape in the flesh -along the curves- but been hold straight as possible. This is surely the same method used by Dr Karanth and Dr Barlow. Reply