Size comparisons

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(09-15-2018, 07:59 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Jimmy I don't talk about clouded leopard. Again I can confirm that Eurasian lynxes in our zoo look taller than leopards, even I know that is kind of optical illusion, in same time their body is quite shorter but fluffy. Long legs of lynx allow him to walk in deep snow, its paws look almost weirdly giant for such a small body and allow to lynx to not sink in the snow.

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Eurasian lynx is much larger than Canadian, probably due to the fact that cougar in North America limits the size of lynx, same as cougars in jaguar country tend to be smaller. In northern Eurasia however lynx is the largest cat... In some European countries such a Slovakia people called it a "Carpatian tiger", which is funy for an animal with average weight of males of only 24 kg.... Same as in US cougars a called a mountain "lions" due to the absence of real lions.

Concerning clouded leopard don't know what to think, can't agree nor disagree with the images, its a bit terra incognita for me, probably looks a bit small. Maximum weight of Eurasian lynx is 40 kg, what is maximum weight of the clouded cat? In wiki is written 23 kg.

What comes to long legs, usually lynx is able to walk so, that it doesn´t sink in snow. In extremely soft snow it can sink and pretty deeply, but that is not what it likes :) Walking or leaping in soft and deep snow isn´t economical, so all animals avoid it if/when they can. Only animal which I remember to move in way, which looks uneconomical, is wolverine. And it is just coincidence, that this reply is to wolverine! Reply