Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

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(02-08-2022, 03:54 AM)LoveAnimals Wrote: Do you have data regarding the highest reliable  shoulder height for these leopards taken on straight line without counting the paw? I guess it would be anywhere around 78 cm maybe. Some sites say 80+ cm but I think that's because it does include the paw. And that isn't of course a reliable methodology for measuring shoulder heights as well as those all 120+ cm lions and tigers.
I remember a 140 cm tall lion somewhere lol. Polar bear sized hell no that's inaccurate.

I have a lot of data on Indian leopards, I can tell you that the tallest leopard measured "between pegs" was of 74 cm, the average that I got was of 66 cm.

We need to be carefull with records of leopards, specially those from Africa, after all is there were the figure of 190 cm for a head-body length of leopards (sic!) was created and perpetuated in the litterature, even in books like "Walkers Mammals fo the World" and modern cats books like "Wild Cats of the World" from Dr Sunquist and wife (2002) and Dr Hunter (2015). Rubish to be honest, specially because is repeated and nobody stop thinking that this figure is unreliable. Reply