Size comparisons

[Twico5]

(04-17-2022, 01:18 AM)Pckts Wrote:

(04-16-2022, 10:30 PM)Twico5 Wrote:

(04-16-2022, 09:45 PM)LoveAnimals Wrote:

(04-16-2022, 06:27 PM)Twico5 Wrote: huge cattle herds

An Oncafari biologist states that most of jaguars they study at Caiman Ecological Refuge (where the largest jaguars in the world are found, like Joker and Robusto), very rarely prey on cattle. 

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(04-16-2022, 06:27 PM)Twico5 Wrote: Pumas in Patagonia are eating cape hare

About this, read here :
https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-cougar-...#pid141952 while European hares definitely make a bulk fo cougar diets in the Patagonia, they are usually hunted by youngsters and females, not adult males.

 As you can see from that post adult males hunt primarily guanacos, rheas, and wild horses.

It is very rare for pumas to hunt wild horses. They are dangerous prey and guanacos/hares are a much more frequent prey item. Also, horse-killing pumas get huge. They’re the ones that get upwards of 100kg

“In 44 of those 147 sites we recorded hunting events. In 40 of these sites we found remains of guanacos and rheas, while in the remaining 4 we found remains of wild horses.“ 
Over the course of 2 years btw. 4 horses (most likely foals), over the course of 2 years, sample size = 1 male puma.

Jaguars in the pantanal also hunt horses btw. Certainly not comparable prey bases still.

Nowhere are pumas upwards of 100kg. You Are talking about an outlier when mentioning 100kg Puma.

I never said avg weight? As i said before pantanal jaguars have a better prey base than any cougar population. Every individual is large and well fed. However, a 90kg puma is not exceptional, there are usually 80-90kg pumas mentioned in every single study ive seen from argentinea and chile as well as nw states like idaho, montana, utah etc that includes weights. A 90kg puma is large yes but in areas where they have little competition and healthy prey bases why should there be any avg or 60 kilogram males? Reply