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(04-27-2019, 03:15 AM)Luipaard Wrote: Here's a more impressive Persian leopard than that Pantanal jaguaress. Look at his massive skull @0:30
I'm not sure where you got that from, the leopard looks normal body sized for a Male.
You need to see good sized males in person to appreciate what a 70kg Leopard actually looks like.
Edit: I found a treasure trove of old Jaguars photos that will be great for comparison. I'll post them tomorrow and you can post the Leopards that you think match up.
He looks large with a massive skull size. Not sure why you're overlooking that. But you've done that before so no surprise.
Persian have one of the biggest skulls, only Central African males best them. As you should know, it's a good indicator to estimate an animal its size. Same applies to these Central African males; their average skull size is higher than a South African male and the biggest skulls in the world are from these males. Tell me, what makes you think they're mediocre and will average 65kg with such huge skulls?
Just so you know, Tigers for instance have a stronger correlation to body length than Skull size which is why I keep saying that since we dont know skull size to body weight nor do we have many skulls with body weights as well for any leopard, you dont know what correlation skull size has. This is also true in persians which may be the largest Leopard and also not coincidentally are the longest Leopards on record as well.
In regards to your claims of massive leopards, again, you haven't seen them, I have. There is no alterior motive, you and I see very different things. I dont thing you should be making claims about overlooking anything, you've been doing it with comparable E/S African leopards that were hunted, actual verified weights from the Congo Basin it self or from the C. African hunts which no doubt some are the same individuals you find in the Congo basin, I'm sure they travel in and out of the forest, especially ones living on the fringe.
Again, I found a huge collection of Jaguar photos, you'll be able to compare properly I no time.
I'll post in a bit