Modern Weights and Measurements of Leopards

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Without trying to compete with the excellent infographics of Guate Gojira, Andres Vida and other forum members, I present a comparison between the two leopards with greater total length of which I have news.

We have on the one hand the leopard mentioned by C.A.W.Guggisberg in "Wild cats of the World" and on the other the leopard hunted by Marrs Bowman in 2008. From the first of them, we only have the quote from Guggisberg that I guess comes from another source, we have the data of total length, tail length and weight of the animal. In this quote there are several inconsistencies, on the one hand, the tail is too short for a leopard of those dimensions, most normal would be to measure between 1 and 1.10 m long and on the other hand, we have the weight. If we take into account that 1.91 m is as much or more that is measured by the majority of lions and adult tigers, it would be logical to weigh much more than 150 kg, however, we are told that it weighed 75.7 kg.

On the other leopard, we have a photo in which it is attributed a total length of 9 feet and 3 inches (2.82 m), a weight of 190 pounds ( 86.26 Kg) and a skull of 17.5 inches ( something in the order of 10.5 x 7 inches). The alleged measures, if compared with the persons shown in the photo, could be correct. If we assume that Ms.Bowman is 1.65 tall, the head and body of the leopard could be 1.65/1.75 m.

The photograph I took as a model for the leopard from Nigeria was that of a leopard from Mole National Park, Ghana, whose tail I shortened to fit the measure provided by Guggisberg, for the leopard from Mount Kitumbeine, I’ve taken a model of Masai Mara.

My opinion is that the first of the two is an excessively large animal and in the event that the available measures were correct, it would be a case of gigantism 

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