Modern Weights and Measurements of Jaguars

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Weight data from Onçafari published in the study: Safe in the heights: trees as safer sites for female jaguars and their cubs in the Pantanal, Fragoso et al. (2023).

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This is part of the data we received from them in 2020 which I shared before on here as an exclusive. The average weight for 6 males is around 120 kg (with Joker having a partial and not total weight included), and females is 72 kg, including sub-adults (the 51 kg female was Juju who was 10 moths old at the time of that capture). Not a single male from Caiman under Onçafari's research has weighed 100 kg or less, and their average is comfortably over 115 kg in that reserve when we include all the weights gathered so far, proving once again that recent scientific data shows an increment in body size and betterment in fitness for jaguars in well-protected areas of the Pantanal as opposed to the mid and late 20th century when hunting pressure towards them and their prey was much higher. Reply