ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - C - THE JAGUAR (Panthera onca)

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(10-12-2019, 01:34 AM)Pckts Wrote:

(10-12-2019, 12:38 AM)lionjaguar Wrote:

(12-16-2017, 07:01 PM)epaiva Wrote: Jaguars in los Llanos de Venezuela are big with larger males weighting over 100 kgs, only Jaguars from Pantanal in Brazil grow larger. First picture showing the powerful dentition of big male and second picture of huge male hunted in 1959 in El Rosero, Estado Apure, it weighted 148 kgs.
Taken from the book El Jaguar Tigre Americano (Rafael Hoogesteijn and Edgardo Mondolfi)

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Jaguars living in the Pantanal are bigger than ones in the Llanos? According to Sunquist, jaguars living in the Venezuelan Llanos are bigger than Brazilian Pantanal.

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Yes, the pantanal has the largest Jags on earth. 
Los Llanos has similarly sized males but in less numbers while females seem grow a bit larger in the Pantanal. 
The main reason is Caiman, since their numbers increased so did Jagauars and their size as well. 
You have quite a few 130kg plus Jaguars in both the north and south pantanal and 148kg empty as well. 
Even in Almeidas book which is where a lot of those weights came from, he mentions a jaguar of 130kg empty he estimated and a couple of 21"+ scoring skulls as well.

There are a lot of caiman in Los Llanos too. Jaguars in Llanos probably became smaller due to hunting in the mid-1900s. Reply