Modern Weights and Measurements of Jaguars

[Balam]

@Dark Jaguar yes, it'd be interesting to know how common those huge jaguars would be. I believe jaguars don't necessarily need cattle to get big, but of a constant supply of medium-sized prey like capybara, peccary, caiman, and deer they can consume regularly. For this, the populations of those animals have to be plentiful. A jaguar that kills a prey of 60 kg every fourth day and consumes 40 to 50 kg in each sitting will grow big, especially during its developmental years, there is no need for cattle.

And what you said about genetic diversity is key, genes are what determine the health and good morphology of these jaguars, do corridors are essential to allow the travel of different populations into different areas.

In my opinion, as long as there are 10% monster jaguars in a population that successfully breed with different females and their cubs have access to the plentiful prey I described before, those cubs would grow to probably attain similar large sizes increasing steadily the overall weight average of that population. Reply