Size comparisons

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(04-19-2022, 12:23 AM)LonePredator Wrote: What is the biggest prey for a Jaguar other than a Tapir? And what is the largest aquatic prey for Jaguars? Do they hunt large sea turtles?

In the habitat of the jaguar, only the tapir is bigger than him and they live at a low density, the deers are about the same size than jaguar but that is all, wild pigs like pecari and any other wild prey is smaller than the jaguar.

And that is why the document of Hayward et al. (2016) is so interesting because they discuss this dilema, that a large Panthera cat that evolved to kill large prey, now it needs to live on smaller prey and managed to adapt to it very good.


If jaguars had the same wild prey size and density that pumas had in US and Canada (deers of over 200 kg) they will not weigh the 90-100 kg that a puma (if lucky) may reach, but certainly will be a little bigger than the Pantanal jaguars, because they are adapted for that and in the past they weighed over 200 kg during the Pleistocene (P. o. augusta and P. o. messembrina) when the large preys existed in they habitat. Reply