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[LonePredator]

(04-28-2022, 11:54 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(04-28-2022, 09:07 PM)LonePredator Wrote: @Pckts I found something more, Tigers are NOT proportionally longer in length. The average 118kg Sumatran Tiger is 162cm in head-body length while a 104.5kg Llanos Jaguar is 156.5cm in head-body length.

Source: Guate Table for Sumatrans and Sunquist & Sunquist for Jaguars.

Which means Tigers are 2cm SHORTER than Jaguars in body length at weight parity but the difference is negligible. A Jaguar of the same head-body length as a Sumatran Tiger (162cm) will only be 115.9kg in weight while a Sumatran Tiger of the same body length is 118kg in weight so both have roughly equal body length for their size.

I have plenty of 110-130kg jaguars with measurements included, there’s no need to guess. I’ll provide them tomorrow. Also if you’re comparing averages to a single individual that’s not an accurate comparison.

First of all, I am comparing average Sumatran to average Jaguar.

And no! Your comparison is inaccurate. The average Jaguar has a proportionally longer body length than the average Sumatran Tiger, ‘pound for pound’.

No need for your 120-130kg Jaguars because that specimen does NOT represent the average Jaguar. Those 120-130kg Jaguars are much more bulky or fat than normal Jaguars.

Why would you cherry pick a bulky jaguar to compare with an average Sumatran Tiger? How is your comparison fair? To represent an average Jaguar to compare with an average Sumatran Tiger, the only correct and fair way to do it is to isometrically scale them.

Even some Bengal Tigers are of normal length but have much higher chest girths which results in higher weight BUT you can’t use those Tigers to show the head-body length to weight ratio of Bengal Tigers because that is NOT the average specimen and average Tigers are NOT that bulky.

The thing is that the average morphology of Jaguars makes their bodies proportionally longer than a Sumatran Tiger of average morphology. The morphology of Jaguars (heavy populations) makes them about 105kg on average.

There are even fat or muscular humans who are of average height but are much heavier than average human. But they do NOT represent the average morphology of a human. Similarly, your 120kg Jaguars do NOT represent the average morphology of Jaguars and therefore you cannot use their head-body length to weight ratio for comparison. You have to use the average Jaguar. Reply