Size comparisons

[Pckts]

Body Size Comparisons 

Persian

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147 HBL Average w/221 TBL (CM)



Compared to African and Sri Lankan. 

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As you can see, Persians do have a larger body length but since they are measured over the curves we're not sure how much that actually is but with African and Sri Lankan Leopards, the overlap is very easy to see and reflected in sizes from Males or Females.
Whether BW or HBL, they are both very close and we see what the difference between the largest of leopards *Persian 65kg average* compared to the 60kg average in Leopards from Kruger and Zimbabwe

Here you even have a larger average than persians with a 72kg average for these S. African Leopards >7 yrs

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Not shown is E. African Leopards but with large weights like these you can expect much of the same when it comes to averages.

        East Africa:

o   92.5 kg. Mount Kenya, Kenya [Hunted] (Mellon 1995; Scott & Scott, 2006 [Spanish edition]).

o   79 kg. Loliondo region, Tanzania (De Almeida, 1990).

o   73 kg. Naivasha farm, Kenia (Hamilton, 1981).

o   65.3 kg. East Africa [Hunted] (Meinertzhagen, 1938; Schaller, 1972).

Kenya 

In his 1981 paper,  "The leopard and Cheetah in Kenya", PH Hamilton provided some weights of leopards captured for translocation in Kenya. Seven males described as adult from different parts of Kenya averaged 55.6kg. However, it appears the smallest male at 40kg was in very poor condition after having been in captivity for some time which may be the reason for this particularly low weight. If excluded the average weight for the remaining 6 males is 58.2kg with the biggest weighing 73kg.



D.R. Congo and Gabon Leopard Size

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In the book, "Wild Cats:Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan" 1996 by Nowell and Jackson, the weight of 2 male leopards from north east Gabon is given as 34kg and 42kg. The original source of this data is S. Lahm who weighed these leopards after they had been killed in snares set by poachers. The 34kg male was assessed to be a subadult and the 42kg male was described as a prime adult.



2 Leopards here had their paws removed from snares and aren't in great shape, so lets say they are in the 60-70kg mark if they are healthy.





Again, this overlap is very apparent in Leopards, they are affected by location but it seems as though they reach a fairly common maximum and shrink down from there.  Reply