Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

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(04-29-2022, 11:03 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-29-2022, 09:01 PM)LonePredator Wrote: @GuateGojira What is your opinion on the size of this Leopard??

Well, the animal existed, it was weighed and the figure is in a per-review paper, so the only that we need to add is that included stomach content. So, what more can we add? I think this detate is futile.

I believe that a leopard of 100 kg is an exceptional one, not a regular occurence, and in this case it included stomach content. The record leopard of 96 kg in Namibia was exceptional too, that figure was not reached by any other leopard in the area, at least in scientific and verified records (as far I know). By the way, if you want to continue with the debate, here are a few hunting records from Sri Lanka, from the book "For the Leopard: A tribute to the Sri Lanka Leopard" of 2002:

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Now you can debate if these figures are real/correct or not.

As for the ‘record’ of 239cm and weight of 77kg that doesn’t seem like very exceptional for a Leopard so I personally would not doubt it.

However, to know if that length and weight pair is a match or not, we need to be able to know the weights and measurements of a few Sri Lankan leopards. We don’t even have a picture of that Leopard to see whether it was as bulky as an average Sri Lankan Leopard or less or more than that.

Another thing is that for Leopards, we usually only get head-body length unlike in the case of Tigers. For Tigers, we have good data of head-body length, shoulder height as well as chest girth along with weights so in case of Tigers, we can use all these things as reference to make our estimates.

We can use all three of those to scale it to the said weight and then average out all the results and then see if they match or not. This gives a much more accurate estimate than just using a single dimension such as head-body length which only gives a single result.

Like in your chart for Persian Leopards, only the records of head-body length exist so only that can be used for this purpose, we are only able to use head-body length but that still can work at least roughly because we at least have a picture of the Leopard to see how bulky it was.

But in this case of the Sri Lankan Leopard, we only have a total length and bodyweight. And total lengths are problematic themselves. The information in this case is too less to know if the weight and length pair is a match or not plus we don’t even have many other records of Sri Lankan Leopards to use as reference either. Reply