Modern Weights and Measurements of Jaguars

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@peter @Dark Jaguar @epaiva @Pckts,  I also have some really interesting news, I was in contact with Rachael Hoogesteijn in regards to questions about his capture of Lopez and the ecology of Llanos jaguars and I'm going to share what he told me here:

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In regards to the weight of Lopez

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"The scale with which we weight that jaguar captured in 2008 reached 300 lbs = 136 kg, but the jaguar surpassed the scale (reached the limit), with a lot of ease, so the researcher Sandra Cavalcanti, with a lot of expertise in captures and weights of jaguars, estimated him to be 148 kg, there is no way to know if he had stomach content"

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"In the Rosero, Apure state in the Venezuelan Llanos the brothers Velunti hunted a jaguar, the heaviest of more than a 100 they hunted and weighed 149 kg and there is a picture of the jaguar on the scale, showing his weight. 180 kg to me is a lie, I don't believe any jaguar in the Llanos weights more than 140 kg, and in the Pantanal 150 kg" then he recommended to read his book for more details.

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"Yes jaguars hunt wild horses when they get the chance, and there are recent cases of a jaguar that killed a very valuable tamed horse, favourite of one of the sons of the owner of La Aurora. Jaguars are big opportunists and if they have the chance of predating a horse, especially the old ones that don't run as fast, they will do it" Reply