Size comparisons

[Luipaard]

(05-02-2019, 07:15 PM)Wolverine Wrote: Liupaard, if you feel insulted from the fact that scientific team of Panthera.org has written as a maximal weight 90 kg, not 115 you can complain...   Call them and ask angrily: "guys why you don't suggest 115 kg a reliable weight why I find it reliable?.."   Maybe be they will agree with you and will make a change... But until then I trust them.

Is obvious that something is not Ok with such a weight, its far too much from the normal body mass of this relatively small animal and digit 115 kg contradict the common sense.

I agree with you that animals from the rain forests of West Africa should be a bit larger than these from the African savannah where the lion is the apex predator. In same time Central Africans can not be larger than inhabiting cold mountains Persians because this contradict the Bergman's rule, which is a universal law of the zoogeography. Read here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann%27s_rule

I never felt insulted so no worries. 90kg is not the magical barrier for leopards, I think everybody knows that. As for the 115kg Persian leopard; yes the number is odd but remember it's from a scientific reasearch aswell. Even if the number is incorrect (which I think is), that male will still be in the 90kg+ range. No way they're gonna estimate that wrong.

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A young Persian male already weighed 64kg (source), that's like the average weight for South African adult males. What makes you think they can't weigh over 90kg? Reply