Size comparisons

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Ok, I made an investigation about the size of the Eurasian lynx and most of the sorces give a greatest head-body of 108 cm and a total length of 130 cm. Some sources wrongly quote this as a head-body, but that is not correct.

Using Tumlison (1987), Heptner & Sludskii (1992) and Sunquist & Sunquist (2002), the figures of over 110 cm are normally total lengths. Tumlison (1987) quotes the total length of 154.5 cm (tail of 24.5 cm) but this seems to be a "over curves" or skin length, because the measurements from the "flesh" are always smaller. This suggest that the head-body of 1480 mm from Sunquist book is, in fact, a total length. I could not found the original source (is in German) but in base of all the information, specially all the samples provided by Heptner & Sludskii (1992), this is my conclution.

About the weights, the large lynx captured by Dr John Goodrich in Sikhote Alin, is the heaviest one in scientific documents, that I could found:

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However @Pantherinae and @StefanC reported a large specimen of 34 kg. Check it in post No. 5: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-small-wild-cats

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Here is the largest specimen that I found in the web:

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Sadly, there is no information of length or weight.

These two last lynx are as large as an average puma or a leopard, but smaller in weight, that is all.

However, if you take a steel tape and try to put it in your body, you will see that these large lynx are no larger than 110 cm measured in straight line, so with this pictures it seems that the record of 108 cm for a male in head-body is the largest correctly measured. I am going to make the change in the comparison image. Reply