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

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FULL COMPILATION OF MODERN WEIGHTS FOR JAGUARS IN FOUR POPULATIONS

Over the past months, we have gathered a total of 184 weights of jaguars that have been published over the past years. We've compiled the weights of four populations: the Pantanal which has by far the most data on captures of any jaguar population, and three other populations that did not have public data released on their weights (except for one published paper on Cerrado jaguars by IOP). Other populations such as the Llanos, Central and North America, and the Amazon have had a great body of work released in the past concerning jaguar captures and weights, while recent captures have been few or null, thus lacking the required data to compile enough information on them.

In terms of jaguars from the Cerrado, data on females is greatly lacking, so the data on males was the only one able to be comprised into a table at the moment.
I'm sure we will continue to receive new information as captures are performed continuously and the tables will be adjusted accordingly, but this should suffice for now a good compilation of data for anyone interested in jaguar morphology and size variations in recent times.

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PANTANAL (n:123)

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CERRADO (n:13)

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CHACO (n:22)

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ATLANTIC FOREST (n:26)

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