Size comparisons

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(04-18-2019, 11:20 AM)Luipaard Wrote:

Quote:"It should be borne in mind that these huge swamp jaguars from the Pantanal (and Llanos) prey routinely on cattle and generally live very easy lives. 

While Pantanal jaguars for sure eat cattle, many leopards in India and Africa are also addicted cattle killers, even in higher degree, but they don't reach even close the size of Pantanal jaguars. Jaguars as a rule are much more shy towards humans and avoid them, while many leopards reside very close to human settlements and even enter the villages to kill domestic animals. Even if you feed day and night a leopard with tasty fat beef it will never reach the size of Pantanal jaguar, because jaguar is much larger cat. Adult male jaguar from Brazil is not much smaller than lioness. The largest jaguar I've seen was only a bit smaller than lioness.

Pantanal jaguars are famous not only because they are large, but because its easier to be observed. It's quite possible that in some parts of vast inhabited Amazon rain forests covering 5 million square kms could be found also jaguars who rival in size Pantanal's but they are just not so much studied and hence not so famous. Reply