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05-20-2021, 03:27 PM( This post was last modified: 05-20-2021, 03:28 PM by Balam )
(05-20-2021, 10:33 AM)tigerluver Wrote: Other than the Almeida hunting book, are there any published scientific records of the chest girth and body length of wild jaguars? I've found even a couple scientific records for every large cat but no luck in the jaguar department unfortunately.
The other great source for jaguar measurements comes from Hoogesteijn's "El Tigre Americano"
Measurements of Venezuelan females, this includes Llanos and other areas, adults and sub-adults:
Largo total: total length
Largo de cuerpo: body length
Straight lines of course
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Venezuelan males, notice that the males from Falcón and Amazonas states are not Llanos specimens, those lower the average.
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Adult females and sub adult females and males from the Pantanal, primary source comes from Crawshaw and Quigley
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Central American jaguars, primary source Robinowitz.
Circunferencia cabeza: head circumference
Altura a la cruz: whiters height
Altura lomo: hip height
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Adult Pantanal male and females, primary source Schaller and Vasconcelos