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RE: big males compared to females - Tshokwane - 08-11-2015

Two beautiful leopards this time. The big Tingana male and Kwatile female.

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RE: big males compared to females - Tshokwane - 10-11-2015

Tingana male and Karula female. He's a great looking boy and clearly a Don Juan with the ladies.
Credits to Cheetah Plains Private Game Reserve.

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RE: big males compared to females - Pckts - 10-13-2015


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RE: big males compared to females - Tshokwane - 10-22-2015

Jamuna Raju:Pair of Mating Leopards

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RE: big males compared to females - Pckts - 10-22-2015

Forget the Male, that female is a tank.
haha


RE: big males compared to females - Dr Panthera - 10-24-2015

Thank you all for the great pictures, interesting how sexual dimorphism varies among big cats it seems to be most extreme with leopards where a big male can be easily twice the size of a female ( 96 kg vs 44 kg). 
I think the sexual dimorphism will be also great in tigers and Pumas, a little bit less in lions and Jaguars, and the least in cheetahs, snow leopards, and clouded leopards....anything from same size to double the size of a female, more pronounced than in canids or hyaenids, less than ursids, much less than in seals and sea lions.


RE: big males compared to females - GrizzlyClaws - 10-24-2015

Even the male South Chinese tiger can sometimes dwarf the female Bengal tiger.


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RE: big males compared to females - Pckts - 11-12-2015

Harbin Male and Female, male looks to be at least twice her size. Nice little photo bomb of a Male lion lounging as well.


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RE: big males compared to females - GrizzlyClaws - 11-12-2015

The Harbin breeding center has harvested a lot of canines and claws from the dead tigers/lions/ligers.

Hopefully, they can preserve the skull of the largest specimens as well. However, the skulls are simply too expensive, that's why the skulls and the rest of the bones were destroyed, only the canines and claws remained.


RE: big males compared to females - GuateGojira - 12-07-2015

Check this out shocked :


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This is the extreme of sexual dimorphism in tigers, this is more marked in the larger subspecies, which are the Bengal and the Amur specimens.


RE: big males compared to females - Siegfried - 12-12-2015

I might have posted these elsewhere.  Male and female ligers.  Advance to about 1:40 of the second video.











RE: big males compared to females - GrizzlyClaws - 12-12-2015

Good, those ligers look very fit, and they do resemble the modern day Cave lions.


RE: big males compared to females - Tshokwane - 12-21-2015

Mr. Anderson and Nsele female. His size is amazing.

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RE: big males compared to females - TheLioness - 12-31-2015


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RE: big males compared to females - Tshokwane - 01-13-2016

Dayone male and Dam 3 female

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