Size comparisons

[BorneanTiger]

@Luipaard @Pckts I must say, this issue of the northern South American jaguar versus the southern SA jaguar is starting to look more like the issue of the Bengal tiger vs the Siberian tiger.

As for the jaguars, I came across this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._evolution
"Body size of today’s jaguars is highly variable; the largest are found in the Brazilian Pantanal and Venezuelan Llanos (mean male body mass >100kg). The smallest jaguars live in Central America (~56kg)."

Venezuelan jaguar at Los Llanos: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/535506211933874521/

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As for the tigers, in captivity and overall, the Siberian tiger is the largest tiger, with an overweight captive Amur tiger named 'Jaipur' having had a weight of 465 kg (1,025 lbs: https://books.google.com/books?id=uIqtQgAACAAJ&dq). In the wild however, the Bengal tiger outweighs the Siberian tiger on average and on record, with the calculated average weights (aside from the issue of errors made in them) of wild males being 176.4 kg (388.9 lbs) for the Amur tiger (http://fishowls.com/Slaght%20et%20al%202005.pdf), and 196 kg (432.1 lbs) for the Bengal tiger (https://www.scribd.com/document/55287778...Tiger-2015), and the biggest wild tiger not being a Siberian tiger with an unconfirmed weight of 384 kg (847 lbs: https://books.google.com/books?id=uIqtQgAACAAJ&dq), but a Bengal tiger that weighed 388.7 kg (857 lbs) after eating a buffalo calf (https://archive.is/20130202094033/http:/...nov95.html, https://books.google.com/books?id=uIqtQgAACAAJ&dq).

Jaipur the obese, captive Amur tiger: http://www.ligerworld.com/biggest-tiger-...orded.html

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Huge wild Bengal tiger at Kaziranga National Park, northeast India:

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