Modern Weights and Measurements of Jaguars

[Pckts]

(02-23-2023, 08:06 PM)AndresVida Wrote: Here's it's an appropriate thread 

@Pckts doesn't Almeida's 119 kg jaguar have a greater mid section girth than chest girth despite being fully empty bellied? This shows that Shaka could also hold weight on the mid section despite being also empty, and Joker measuring less on that area almost certainly confirms he was pretty empty as well. I recall seeing his picture with him lying on a flank and the flank was shrinking instead of being bloated.

Regarding the "pleistocene Jaguar" discussion also I'm familiar with Balam and I have never seen anywhere that she has claimed Edno to be a 170 kg jaguar tbh.

I think that the whole "pleistocene jaguar" thing was related to the result of the chest-girth equation we got from Charger that shows Joker may have attained a size rivaling or slightly surpass the average size of Mesembrina

Generally speaking Almeida states belly girth depends a lot upon how much, if anything the cat had eaten recently. 

The largest Belly girth Almeida measured came from completely empty male which measured 47'' (119cm)
This male's chest girth was 43'' 
This means that generally the belly girth should outsize the chest girth more often than not regardless if the Jaguar is empty or not so using the excuse that the Jaguar should be considered full just because it's belly girth outsizes it's chest isn't correct. Like most state, it's very difficult to determine how much a cat has in it's stomach outsize of the obvious bloating or 1st hand knowledge of carcass consumption. 

I assume that the person making the baseless claims about what Balam said is wrong per usual, I'm not surprised by that. 

With regards to the Chest/Weight equation-
Unfortunately you need all the measurements to determine a real weight that has the best possibility of being accurate. There's no magic bullet, you can find correlations between them all but none paint a true picture until you have the necessary measurements. (Height, Length, girth and protocols used) Reply