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Most experts will agree skull measurements are among the most reliable measures of size. Pocock studied a large number of leopard skulls from across Africa and India, the largest skulls he measured were all from the Congo Basin region. He studied 3 adult male skulls from Gabon specifically, each of which was larger than any he had seen from east or southern Africa.
Peter TurnBull Kemp, whose book, "The Leopard" 1967 is widely cited in literature relating to leopards had experience all over Africa as a game warden. Despite spending most of his time in southern Africa, the largest leopard he ever saw was from Cameroon (same general area as Gabon). He mentions several times in his book that leopard from the equatorial forests of Africa are particularly impressive.