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04-01-2019, 05:22 PM( This post was last modified: 04-01-2019, 06:46 PM by Pckts )
Sri Lanken leopards are smaller than their afrian cousins, this is based off visual evidence not a BBC claim of a 100k Leopard which is equivalent to a people claiming Waghdoh was 350kgs, claims are pointless without evidence to back them. There are quite a few people on FB who've seen both Leopards, you should reach out to a few and see what they say.
I'm also well aware about exceptional leopard size, also why I said that Eastern and Southern African leopards are likely larger than their central cousins but yet you still have few verified weights of 100kg even Vin Diesel who is claimed to be 90kg has never been confirmed by any one involved with the capture I've seen.
We have a large data base of leopard weights, none of which support weights of 100kg being common place for leopards while we have a smaller database for Jaguars yet weights of 130kg or more are somewhat common, that in itself should be proof of what is considered to be a freak individual.
In regards to sexual dimorphism, leopards are no different than other cats
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It be like me saying Umarpani is a 280kg Tiger and Choti Tara is a 85kg Tigress and thus Tigers have the largest sexual dimorphism of any cat.
But that isn't the case, big cats come in a wide variety of sizes and at averages their differences will usually be with in the same range. Exceptions exist for meta populations in some species but overall the dimorphism is similar.