Animal Strength Feats

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One of the best ways to determine how much a partially eaten animal weighs is by comparing them to the dressing of said animal's carcass.

For anyone unfamiliar with this process, dressing a carcass means to remove the organs, head, feet and skin of the animal.

You can search up dressed carcasses for a better piture.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dressed+...wOn3S17atM


They do this for not only domestic animals, but also game animals like Kudu, Blesbok, Impala, Deer and Elk.

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source: Game Farm and Hunting Tourism (2014) - Editor: Peet van der Merwe



Here is one that includes the weight of the dried carcass and all the other body parts for Kudu and Impala.

*This image is copyright of its original author

source: Mostert, Analene C. Meat quality of kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) and impala (Aepyceros melampus). Diss. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2007.





As can be seen, dried carcasses weigh around 50-60% of the original live weight of the animal.





So this is important since you can estimate the weight of the carcass dragged by the wild animal.





Considering a Leopard dragged a Kudu Cow with a mostly eaten abdominal cavity, albeit with some of the guts still left, the Leopard could have lifted a Kudu Carcass that was anywhere around 91 kg-110 kg mark.

It is possible the carcass could have weighed more, but this is just a conservative estimate. Reply