Comparing Cats: A Discussion of Similarities & Differences

[AndresVida]

I don't like that there's still this amount of doubts regarding that leopard when a very knowledgeable vet which works for conservation literally confirmed by first hand all the reality about that individual cat.

He just confirmed to me that the leopard was found in severe conditions near a carcass, telling that the weight of 115 kg (252 lbs) was due to stomach content, which still remarks that the leopard reached a very high weight.

After the cat was sedated and put in a box it was taken to I assume a wild animal rescue hospital, where it fell in a condition of stress (visible from pictures where the leopard constantly growls at the rescuers)and refused to eat, except its own limbs given the high amount of stress. As a consequence, the weight dropped since within half a day or a day the food in the stomach is digested and no other food is taken since the cat refused to eat. At that moment, the leopard was weighed in at around 105 kgs (230 lbs) when empty bellied, since as I said, it refused to eat and started eating his own limbs. The day of the euthanasia, which took some days later, the leopard was weighed again and this time it was around 98 kgs (216 lbs), again after the leopard wasn't eating and by consequence it's body weight started decreasing. 



I myself experienced a very terrible fever when I was in my prime of gym training during this November ( I weigh 80.49 kgs) and I skipped 6 days of training, while eating not nearly close to half of the amount o(I wasn't even hungry, I also skipped lunch and dinner one day)of rice, eggs, chicken, ,spinach, beef  and calories I used to eat days before and surprisingly, my weight dropped to 77.36 kgs , it took me over a week to get close to the 80 kg mark again. So while still eating I lost nearly 3 kgs of weight in 6 days, it's perfectly reasonable that the leopard lost weight while not eating anything.

By consequence, it's completely accurate and reasonable to say the leopard weighed between 100-105 kgs when healthy and empty which it a actually did as Imam said.


I'll send again the video with all the reality shared by the vet

https://youtu.be/n_GY-Meo5UY

Instead of doing these endless debates regarding the size of this outlier large male we should focus on other features, like the fact that this leopard managed to survive after being shot literally several times and was still growling in rage, just gives us an idea of how tenacious these beasts are, untamable and unsubdued even by our developed weapons. Divine creatures. Reply