Modern Weights and Measurements of Leopards

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Two female Leopards weighed over 40 kg.

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source: Jooste, Esmarie, Ross T. Pitman, Wouter Van Hoven, and Lourens Hendrik Swanepoel. "Unusually high predation on chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) by female leopards (Panthera pardus) in the Waterberg Mountains, South Africa." Folia Primatologica 83, no. 3-6 (2012): 353-360.






Nearly 50 kg female Leopard that predated on Antelopes.

"In September 1991 Joe DeBeer, a game manager on the John Nash Nature Reserve, showed one of the authors(LRB)   WU/BA-001,   a   small,   partially   mined   cave within the boundaries of the reserve that had been usedby a leopard (Panthera pardus) as a living and feeding lair  for  nearly  a  year.  The  leopard,  a  large  female weighing  nearly  50 kg,  had  regrettably  been  culled some time earlier due to her prolific feeding habits andsubsequent  impact  on  the  local  antelope  population."


source: de Ruiter, Darryl J., and Lee R. Berger. "Leopards as taphonomic agents in dolomitic caves—implications for bone accumulations in the hominid-bearing deposits of South Africa." Journal of Archaeological Science 27, no. 8 (2000): 665-684. Reply