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(03-29-2019, 04:19 PM)Pckts Wrote: 1.Equatorial forests or not, pantanal Jags are going to be 1.5 to 2 times the size.
Yup, I don't know pantanal's or not, but all jaguars in our zoo are way larger and way more robust than the leopards. Completely different weight category, no comparison. If leop stand in point A and tiger in point Z jaguar is somewhere in the middle.
And do you know what kind of leopard your zoo has? You can't compare a small leopard subspecies with a large subspecies of jaguar. It could be the other way aswell. Imagine having a 40kg jaguar from anywhere in Central America and a large leopard like this one:
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They overlap in size. Most zoos have a common leopard or (luckily) a Amur one. They're average sized and everyone takes them as the norm. That's not supposed to be.