ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - C - THE JAGUAR (Panthera onca)

[GuateGojira]

In fact, this seems to be incorrect, because the data is to scarce. Let's explain.

In the new book of Dr Sunquist and his wife, "The Wild Cat Book" of 2014, they state that the largest jaguars are from Venezuela-Brazil and the smallest ones from Peru, check the image:

*This image is copyright of its original author

The problem is that this assumption is based in only 2 weights, from one male and one female captured in Peru, here is the image from the table of the Book of 2002:

*This image is copyright of its original author

And here is another source about them, from Hoogesteijn & Mondolfi (1996):

*This image is copyright of its original author

In the book "Wild Cats of the World" from 2002 (which is vastly superior than the new one from 2014), the Sunquist stated that Central American jaguars were the smaller, but that time based in more data, check it:

*This image is copyright of its original author

So, it seems that there is no evidence to support this new claim. However, like I mentioned before, there are no measurements from jaguars in the frontier between Mexico and USA, and we definitely need more data from Peru in order to get a conclusion. Reply