Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

[AndresVida]

(04-29-2022, 08:58 PM)LonePredator Wrote: By TBL you mean total body length, right? Well on average, a Persian Leopard’s head-body length is about 67% of it’s total length and if this Leopard’s head-body length was also 67% of the total length (if it had a normal sized tail) then this Leopard should only be about 75kg unless it is unusually bulky but it doesn’t really look much more bulkier than a normal Leopard.

I've actually got the paper that mentioned the shorter male I used as example, it was actually less than what I remember in Total Length (213 cm not 215 cm) and weighed more than what i remembered, I thought it was about 75 - 78 kg but it's actually almost 90 kg (86 kg), and it's just 213 cm in total length. 

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Now about the 95 - 98 kg male I'm not sure if it was 230 cm (I remember Guate brought this convo up in the earliest pages of this thread) nor I actually remember if they specified the methods. 

(04-29-2022, 08:58 PM)LonePredator Wrote: So my guess is 85kg.Reply

Actually it's not about estimating the body size, that leopard WAS weighed, before on a carcass when it was gorged and later the day if the euthanasia after it stayed in overstress and refused to eat during the captivity. It's not about estimating the animal based on body length, I've got via instagram confirmation that the animal IS 95 - 98 kg. I don't think we even need the body measurements to back it up, the opinion of 3 vets + the official Persian leopard project page is enough for me. Reply