Animal Strength Feats

[Balam]

Quote:Well yes it is a fact that it's the smallest of the big cats and it is a fact that none of the other three have dragged prey 2-3 times its own bodyweight vertically up a tree.

They don't because they don't have to, they aren't subordinates to other larger carnivores across their range. It's called being an apex predator.

Quote:Male leopards are everything but gracile hence why they're able to take down tough and robust prey such as wild boar, warthog and red river hog. And for some leopards this on a regular basis

Robusticity index studies that show empirical data and numbers speak for themselves. Killing suids has no correlation whatsoever with being a robust cat. It's an undeniably fact that the P. pardus is the most gracile of the pantherines. This makes sense as an adaptation for an animal that is arboreal and needs to have a lighter build for flexibility and agility. You can become a master in something without compromising in other areas, and leopards compromised in the robustness/size department (hence why you don't see 100+ kg leopards).

Quote:And how are they least impressive when they possess the most extreme sexual dimorphism among the big cats? The males constantly dwarf the females because they have a different build. Take a look at their broad heads or massive bulking neck. That's a real eye test

No they don't, Llanos jaguars posses a more drastic weight difference between the sexes than Persian leopards, for example. But nonetheless, the drastic sexual dimorphism has nothing to do with the overall morphology of the species. Another bizarre statement backed up by personal interpretations rather than solid scientific data. Reply