Modern Weights and Measurements of Leopards

[Pckts]

(03-29-2021, 03:31 PM)Balam Wrote: @Pckts et al, remember how I've been saying for the longest that the supposed 115 kg Persian leopard weight was not valid? Well it turns out that the "random Facebook posts" as some individual tried to dismiss them were right. I contacted Dr. Farhadinia who wrote the paper on the weights on Persian leopard to know why the 115 kg male was discarded from the sample, and he confirmed what I've been saying for the longest, the weight was wrong! There is no such a thing as a 115 kg leopard, it weighed 95 kg:

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This should have been obvious to anyone with basic understanding of how to interpret on research paper, but nonetheless here we are.

Oh and one more thing, the supposed 90 kg male from this paper: 

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Was in fact a sub-adult that was completely gorged and by no means would've weighed 90 kg on an empty belly, 60 kg at best. It came from a news report, no different than the jaguar that supposedly weighed 140 kg that was ran over by a car:

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So we can confidently discard those two weights.

And even the 95kg is doubtful, as there has been no confirmation on that weight either. This sub adult is too small to be 90kgs IMO, gorged or not.

Farhadinia’s study never weighed a single cat, they were just going off of weights that have already been reported but as we’ve seen, even reported weights need to be critiqued if not done so by the capturing team. In comparison to the Jaguar table in which every weight reported is actually from the team involved with the capture. Reply