Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

[AndresVida]

(02-08-2022, 04:51 AM)Pckts Wrote: Spot patterns look a bit off between the two *Look directly beneath eye and go down*
Could be the camera resolution but they look different no?

Oh here it comes my favorite hobby. Identifying leopards based on spot pattern! Yes. They do compare. It's just that it's in different positions and the skin is stretched because of the collar in  the first image and it's more floppy in the second one as there's no collar :

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It's Vin Diesel in both, there's no bigger evidence than this. 

I also compared its body spots to other images of him. They do compare.

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The most easily recognizable ones are that large rosette on its waist with a little spot inside of it. Making it a jaguar-like rosette. And the other one is the very visible amount of dots aligned on its front limb that create a vertical stripe. 

(02-08-2022, 04:51 AM)Pckts Wrote: regardless the weight claim is no different than the others who've claimed weights from 2nd hand sources that turned out to be false. 

This is a subjective estimate. I could say the same about hunting records. Hunting records are prone to exagerrate and from the same sources of 400 kg siberian tigers where were reliable hunting record. So just if some claims are prone to exagerrate (we are humans... That's our nature lol) doesn't mean that ALL claims are prone to exagerrate.

(02-08-2022, 04:51 AM)Pckts Wrote: Also, he does look better when he's full bellied compared to the images I posted

No evidence that it was full belly. That was in his prime and the other ones past his prime. This is his last sighting :

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Old and skinny, before death. So the image you posted first don't depict him in his prime. He does compare to Mawenzi in his prime, if not even larger. Oh well. This is just subjective as we'll never know 

(02-08-2022, 04:51 AM)Pckts Wrote: He didn't look that size then or now, he was reported multiple weights as well as disregarded by both Mohammad and Kambiz and his total length was shorter than the larger

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