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

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(09-15-2018, 03:15 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(04-27-2014, 04:46 PM)Richardrli Wrote:

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So these pumas are pretty small, which is understandable given that where cougars and jaguars co-exist, the cougars tend to be small.
 

I have a question. Unlike in South America, why is it that in Central or North America, such as in Belize or Mexico, jaguars are so small that they weigh around 50 kg (110 lbs), enough for even female pumas (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/...75E1DC9FF5) and female South American jaguars (https://web.archive.org/web/201006202310...1-0001.pdf) to weigh about the same or rival them?

@BorneanTiger
They are very small compared to the ones you find in el Pantanal in Brazil and in Los Llanos Venezuela where you find the largest Jaguars because they dont have the same variety and huge numbers of Prey animals they find in those places, in Venezuela you find huge Jaguars in Los Llanos and smaller ones not as small as the ones you find in Central America or Mexico in the rest of the country with the smaller ones in the Venezuelan Amazon. Reply