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07-13-2019, 10:41 PM( This post was last modified: 07-13-2019, 10:56 PM by Luipaard )
(07-13-2019, 07:35 PM)Pckts Wrote: Just got word back from Fernando.
Adriano weighed 130kg, not 158kg
The largest weighed by Panthera was 148kg like Rafeal said as well.
Normal males in the Pantanal weigh 100kgs+ and normal females weigh 80kgs plus.
That makes sense about Adriano since Paulo said quite a few males he's seen are larger than he.
Its safe to say anything over 150kg for a Pantanal Jaguar should be in the same category as a 280kg Lion or Tiger or 100kg Leopard.
Thanks to Fernando Tortato, Rafeal and Epaiva.
So this is true:
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The 148 kg male most likely weighed somewhere in between 133kg and 138kg.
And according to the same person, everything above 130 kg should be considered exceptional. I didn't share this becouse I knew everyone would be on top of me but since the maximum weight is indeed the 148 kg (or 133-138 kg depending how you look at it), this is worth sharing:
Quote:There are also some claimed weights of around 140-150kg reported by hunters but the reliability of these is uncertain and where some indication of stomach content is given they appear to have come from fully gorged specimens. Tony Almeida who recorded very detailed measurements of a large number of adult male jaguars hunted in the Pantanal states in his 1976 book - “no jaguar anywhere will ever weigh more than 130 kilos with empty belly, or 150 kilos gorged”. I think he may have been a tad bit too conservative here but I think barring some exceptions this is generally true. My opinion is that in a given (homogeneous) big cat population, the biggest males would be about 30% heavier than the adult male mean weight for that population with very rare exceptions. Thus at around 135kg empty stomach, the above mentioned male can certainly be considered an exceptional specimen IMO.
Also, the maximum weight sometimes stated as 350lb (~160kg) in some reference books is unsubstantiated as far as I'm aware. It appears to come from the claims of Sasha Siemel, a famous hunter who published sensationalized accounts of jaguar hunting.
Again, this is his opinion regarding their maximum weight, I do not wish to start another discussion again since I myself am not that well informed when it comes to jaguars.