Size comparisons

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(04-23-2019, 02:12 PM)Shadow Wrote: After all for male leopard 90 kg is on upper limit when looking overall information about them.

Exactly, there is no any reliable record of leopard more than 96-99 kg, while the reliable record for jaguar is 158 kg or weight ratio is 1,6- 1,7 times.

Large subspecies and populations:

Average weight of male jaguar in Pantanal is 100 kg:
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v90n2s1/00...170190.pdf

and average weight for male jaguars from Venezuela and Brazil according wiki is 95 kg.

Average weight of male leopards from South Africa (large subspecie) is 63,1 according to Lulaapard is 60-70 kg, = 65 kg. So again weight ratio between jaguar and leopard from large subspecie is 65/95-100 = 1,5 times.

Small subspecies:

Average weight of male jaguar from the smallest subspecies - South Mexico and Central America is 54 kg (Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula , edited by Gerald Alexander Islebe, Sophie Calmé, 2010).

Average weight of male of Arabian leopard (smallest subspecie) is 30 kg. So again weight ratio between jaguar and leopard from small subspesie is 1,8 times.

Conclusions. In whatever way we calculate (large subspecie vs large subspecie, small vs small & record vs record), jaguar as specie in general is 1,5-1,8 times more massive than leopard as a specie in general! Reply