Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

[LonePredator]

(04-30-2022, 01:36 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-30-2022, 12:50 AM)LonePredator Wrote: As for the ‘record’ of 239cm and weight of 77kg that doesn’t seem like very exceptional for a Leopard so I personally would not doubt it.

However, to know if that length and weight pair is a match or not, we need to be able to know the weights and measurements of a few Sri Lankan leopards. We don’t even have a picture of that Leopard to see whether it was as bulky as an average Sri Lankan Leopard or less or more than that.

Another thing is that for Leopards, we usually only get head-body length unlike in the case of Tigers. For Tigers, we have good data of head-body length, shoulder height as well as chest girth along with weights so in case of Tigers, we can use all these things as reference to make our estimates.

We can use all three of those to scale it to the said weight and then average out all the results and then see if they match or not. This gives a much more accurate estimate than just using a single dimension such as head-body length which only gives a single result.

Like in your chart for Persian Leopards, only the records of head-body length exist so only that can be used for this purpose, we are only able to use head-body length but that still can work at least roughly because we at least have a picture of the Leopard to see how bulky it was.

But in this case of the Sri Lankan Leopard, we only have a total length and bodyweight. And total lengths are problematic themselves. The information in this case is too less to know if the weight and length pair is a match or not plus we don’t even have many other records of Sri Lankan Leopards to use as reference either.

I have no idea with leopard are you refering, talking about the one of "239 cm and weight of 77kg", can you refresh my memory?

About Sri Lanka leopards, the only other figures are those from Phillips (1935), which were taken between pegs:

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As the main point of my post about the reports of huge Sri Lanka leopards was completelly missed, I will make the straight question: Do you all think that those reported weights from Sri Lanka (the huge ones) are real?

I meant the Leopard whose length and weight was written in the book which you sent the picture of. It was written in inches and pounds I think so I converted it.

And yes, I do believe the reported weight and length in that book is real but this is just my personal opinion. I can’t make any calculations because the information is very little (though I’m not sure about the one which was 8feet 8inches over curves)

And this is so much more useful, now that we have the head-body length, shoulder height and chest girth, we can make some estimates of other Sri Lankan Leopards (given the condition that these weight estimates from Philips are correct and precise enough) as well but the accuracy will depend on the amount of information available. Reply