Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

[LonePredator]

(04-30-2022, 03:00 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-30-2022, 02:28 AM)LonePredator Wrote: Thank you! I believe that with the example of Amur Leopards, Amur Tigers and Canadian Lynx, we can say that the Bergmann’s ‘rule’ does not apply to felids.

People still use that to say that Siberian Tigers are bigger than Bengals even though the body dimensions are almost the same.

Well, with lynx remember that the Eurasian is bigger and lives in the same latitudes. So, I am not sure of the comparison.

With tigers you are right, Bengals and Amurs are of the same size, weight and skulls (overall records) so the rule is not an explanation for its size.

Finally about leopards, the Amur leopards are about the same size than those from Indochina, but even reputable books show them as the biggest of the species, chech this for example:

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The comparisons are apparently at scale, but they repeat the same cliche that northern animals are bigger, sadly.

Exactly! It’s such a shame that all these types of sources such as NatGeo and all these have so much stupid information. It makes me even more angry when I see such false informatio floating around on thousands of YouTube channels.

They even give bite force in psi and I have seen that they say Siberian tigers have weaker bite force than Bengal even though Siberians have bigger skulls than Bengals on average.

And taking their false claim in count that Siberians are also bigger weight. I don’t understand how they could say that Siberians have weaker bite force when at the other hand they say that Siberians are bigger.

These sources such as NatGeo really disappoint me. Reply