Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

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(06-17-2015, 11:57 PM)'Pantherinae' Wrote:

(06-17-2015, 09:52 PM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(06-17-2015, 06:07 PM)'Majingilane' Wrote: Beautiful images.
I'm always at awe by how versatile and adaptable the leopard is. Lions and tigers are big and beautiful, but if something happens in their environment, maybe a drastic change in the landscape or big prey start to die or something like that and they are probably doomed.
But not the leopard and this is why it is my favorite big cat.
Yeah, maybe he's not as big or strong as the other big cats, but a leopard can survive everywhere, with the tiniest of prey or hunting big deers. This and the other leopard threads give testimony to how perfect of a creature they are.
Thank you.
 



 

Extremely versatile cat, probably the most versatile.
But the tiger and lion are also extremely versatile as well, just look at the adaptions made in Tigers, the immense difference in size and personality from Sumatra to India to Russia/China to Sunderbans and so on.... But they will always need more food and land as they are still much larger than Leopards, even at their smallest.

I also think Jags are extremely underrated, they have few run ins with human beings and live in very close proximity to them.

 


 

Jaguars can be as low as 38 kg, leopards as high as 90 kg. 


 

 

90kg for a leopard is a freak show number and fairly regular number for a Jaguar.
And isn't the heaviest verified Leopard weight 77kg (sri lanka)?

But either way, its not the difference of 85kg-120kg+ you see in tiger sub species average weights, so Im not sure exactly what the point of the statement above is?
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