Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

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(02-07-2022, 11:21 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(02-06-2022, 08:04 PM)LoveAnimals Wrote: These are the giant males that roam in Northern Iran. I've never seen leopards with so massive and huge bodies with pinheads like in these males. 
I guess that these could be some real 100+ kg leopards.

https://imgur.com/t/animals/akP2h2G.gif

https://imgur.com/t/predator/uXtaU6Q.gif

I can't see the images, it says that do not exist anymore.

However I am agree with Pckt, with no referece to scale, any leopard (or any animal, actually) can be of the weight and size that we want, and human mind is very tricky. From what I know, there are very few leopards over 90 kg, most are about 50 - 70 kg, depending of the population. Also, Persian leopards are flufy and may be estimated to have bigger weights than the real ones.

The other 90+ kg Leopards were reported to be from Namibia.

There was a 96 kg Leopard from Valencia (Brain 1983) and a 95 kg Leopard from the Khomas region (Richmond-Coggan 2019).

Considering there were two 90+ kg specimens found in completely different times of the years in Africa compared to 3/4 90+ kg  Leopards found in Iran, would this mean that Persians may also have the highest number of max sized wild Leopards in the world? Reply