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Big Males Compared to Females

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

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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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Jamuna Raju:Pair of Mating Leopards

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Forget the Male, that female is a tank.
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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.
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Even the male South Chinese tiger can sometimes dwarf the female Bengal tiger.


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( This post was last modified: 11-12-2015, 03:31 AM by Pckts )

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








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Good, those ligers look very fit, and they do resemble the modern day Cave lions.
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Mr. Anderson and Nsele female. His size is amazing.

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Dayone male and Dam 3 female

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