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(07-15-2019, 07:56 PM)GuateGojira Wrote: From a list of 85 specimenst from diferente regions of America, the heaviest male was of 80 kg and came from Chile (Sunquist & Sunqusit, 2002). There are many other samples from scientific studies and as far I know, no puma surpassed that weight reported from Chile.
I made a quick research in the web and I found two males of 82 kg each from Canada and Chile, these are from scientific studies. There are other 5 records of males from 90 to 102.5 kg from modern hunting records reported by Boone and Crockett. So it seems that pumas did reach the figures of 80-100 kg more often than leopards.
I also fount the original document of hte record Indian leopard and its weight was of 83 kg. But like I said before, it had stomach content. There is other leopard of 89 kg from South Africa, but in the picture it is posible to see a large belly, suggesting stomach content (?).