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08-21-2019, 04:20 PM( This post was last modified: 08-21-2019, 04:49 PM by Pckts )
Red River hogs are small to mid sized prey, just like warthogs but with smaller tusks.
Young forest buffalo are small to mid size prey just like young zebra, young wildebeest, young rhino, young cape, young giraffe, etc.
You have 2 Panthera researchers who have never captured, weighed or measured any leopards from anywhere. But you have actual measurements of the mirrors used to compare the Leopards to and it shows them to be normal sized leopards.
Your claim to be "small and slender" to climb trees is wrong as well. Considering I've posted huge males in trees and I've seen a huge male in a tree with a water buck kill my self. Big Leopards carry big prey up trees and thus they gain mass by doing so.
Skull size.. . Again is matched from numerous locations with some skulls scoring larger than congo basin skulls and again isn't the best correlation to total leopard size. No leopard shown on that table surpassed 91kg while gorged and you dont know which skull size even matches up to which weight.
Henschel who you quoted in your previous post said nothing about Congo Basin Leopards being larger than any other Leopard and infact he specifically makes mention that he has never captured or measured any of them. But you somehow tried to highlight predation on red river Hogs as some sort of proof they are larger than anywhere else?
You're bypassing the facts to try and skew a response to fit your agenda.