ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - D - THE LEOPARD (Panthera pardus)

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(09-03-2019, 11:34 PM)Luipaard Wrote: @peter You are aware of my source and I have recently received a reply of my source, regarding your post of the 'record panther'/tigress skull. I have no time to type everything like I did previously so I'll just post it:

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I'll also share his opinion becouse I wanted to know what he thought of all of this:

Quote:By the way the criteria (characteristics) used by Pocock can be seen in leopards as well, not often but still - with other words the skull should be re-examined.
Still could be a tiger who knows , but yet those arguments are at least inconclusive

There is a trick - there are skulls (I have seen some ) of big cats which even to have them in your hands one cannot say what this is - we used DNA to figure out for some - it is all question of the rate of growth and development between the different parts of the skull

With other words, will we be 100% sure which species it was in the end? I'm not that knowledgeable enough to make such a statement.

So the skin was observed by Mr Limouzin after all. This strengthens my confidence that the big cat wasn't a regular-colored tigress with an orange fur and stripes, or a regular leopard with a yellow fur and rosettes, but a black tigress which could be mistaken for a black leopard:

Black tiger by James Forbes (1772):

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