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This is for Luipaard concerning thread rainforest leopards:
I was just checking, that I remembered right some charts. Sometimes it is easier to take one detail at the time. I find those skull measurements interesting just in that way, that what differences there are when compared to other leopards. Comparing to jaguars based on skull size, like it would mean something in overall sizes is much more complicated matter and I haven´t found your reasoning convincing in it. When looking at heads of jaguars and leopards, there just is that difference, I haven´t seen any leopard with as robust head as jaguars have. But of course jaguars are famous of their bite and they for sure look like to have muscle structure made for it.
A bit same as if you look at German shepherd and rottweiler. I am not sure about skull sizes, but it takes one look to know, which one has more robust muscles in head and jaws. So if you are trying to use length and width of skulls of leopards as some argument in it, that almost same skull size of leopard would mean about same body weight as jaguar has... then I have to say, that I haven´t yet found you convincing. But if you just use those skull measurements in comparison to other leopards, then it is a different thing.