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Sandro
We've got footage from NatGeo from his capture, turns out Sandro was not baited, nor was he full belied as initially believed before being captured on the snare if we go by the shown footage of the capture of the female. The official weight of 130 kg is mentioned twice throughout the video, including by Gediendson himself. Not only was Sandro not full-bellied prior to being snared, but it took the team several hours to get to him after his capture, in the event he had any stomach content, such content would have been quickly assimilated into the body as big cats have a very fast metabolism.

It seems like Sandro was laid with his upper body where several organs are located inclined on higher ground which gave him the appearance of having a fuller belly. Not saying he was empty just not gorged. In the first part of the video it is mentioned that he weighed "around" 130 kg, since Gustavo Fonseca told us he weighed more than 130 kg, I believe I stand correct in that the 130 kg value was adjusted as an estimate minus the stomach content he may have had.

This footage is also really good because it tells us that contrary to popular belief, when captured with snares jaguars do not gorge on the bait used to lure them into the snare, the stress they have after being captured would keep them from being interested in the meat, this is why deducting weight off of the official weight given based on the amount of meat put on the snare is not an accurate way of arriving at an "empty-bellied" weight. As in the case with Lopez, we do not know if he ate the 3-4 kg of fish put in his bait before being captured, not to mention the assimilation process into the body I described before for any other stomach content the jaguar may have had prior to being snared, which would assimilate into the body in the hours that take the biologists to approach to tranquilize it and take measurements:

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Credits to NatGeo Reply