Size comparisons

[Rishi]

(04-17-2019, 11:31 AM)Luipaard Wrote: This particular male for example, will be equal next to a Pantanal jaguar

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See, that's the issue with photo comparison.
How do we know how big that leopard was? We all can see he's very well-built like a jaguar, but you can't know if he's 6 inches shorter than the average jaguar or not...

A few special leopards may definitely be almost as large as, or even a bit larger, than below average jaguars of Pantanal subspecies... but that's like some of both overlapping with 140kg male lions or sumatran male tigers who maybe upto 120kg.

(04-17-2019, 12:18 PM)Arctotherium Wrote: https://bigcatrescue.org/anatolian-leopards/
This link says Anatolian Leopard bigger than African Leopard.

Firstly, thanks for the source. But it's just some random article from 13 years ago.
Also aren't Anatolian leopards just a western metapopulation of Persian ones? It was never a recognised subspecies.

Secondly, all i found was: ...Some of the leopards that he killed were over 100 kgs.
That is/was true for Indian, Amur, Sri Lankan, African, Persian etc. leopards too & not enough to call them "slightly bulkier than their African cousins".

But most importantly, what I'm interested in is, how many leopards are still alive in Turkey?
What is the standard of protection for them over there? Reply