Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

[AndresVida]

@Twico5 Guys stop with this thing if thw leopard weighed 95-98 kg or not, I may understand why @Pckts is doubtful after all of these different weights so just agree to disagree and stop this continuous debate about the animal.

To me the 95 - 98 kg weight is reliable as it was confirmed by veterinaries and even if people don't see the leopard as "enough large" to be that heavy, well, I'll tell you that this mexican jaguar below doesn't look large either and that to me when I first saw the image without the weight I thought it was 60 - 70 kg at best. 
But no! It weighed just 10 kgs below 100 kg! 

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Compare again to the leopard, they are comparable 

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Again, stop this debate you all. If Pckts doesn't biy the weight it's total understandable, everyone has his own opinions right? And also 

(04-28-2022, 11:05 PM)Styx38 Wrote: If you changed your opinions and believe that other 100+ kg Leopards are still out there, then I will recant my statement.

Pckts is just doubting on THIS leopard not leopards as a whole as I recall seeing his posts saying he does believe in 100+ kg leopards which are imo 100% real. 

Why does it matter though? That's like me being pissed and wanting to convince everyone that a bengal tiger weighed 295kg and not 305kg. 

At the end of the day it's too close to care, since between 95 kg and 100 kg there's a difference of JUST 5 kg, and about 3.5 kg for the 96.5 kg Namibian male, and just 2 kg if we say this persian was 95-98 kg. 

But who cares? It's too close to see it as an important debate, if leopards have gotten as heavy as 95- 96.5kg their limit is definitely around the 100kg mark or slightly more, just like cougars. Reply