Comparing Cats: A Discussion of Similarities & Differences

[Luipaard]

(10-13-2020, 07:50 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(10-13-2020, 12:35 PM)Luipaard Wrote: Mexican jaguars:

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Mexican jaguars from Yucatán Peninsula:

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Belizean jaguars:

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Guatemalan jaguars:

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Can you please share the sources of all this information? Specially the last two. I will like to use it in the new comparative images of the biggest and the smalles jaguar populations.

Sorry, was a bit hasty.

First table of the Mexican jaguars: http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2007-33642017000200117

Yucatán Peninsula's jaguar data is from the book 'Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula'

Guatemalan jaguars: http://glifos.senacyt.gob.gt/digital/fodecyt/fodecyt%202006.58.pdf

Belizean jaguars (extremely detailed one, even includes cougars): https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0045191/00001

Quote:The case of the cougar dying in a fight with a jaguar with its skull broken actually comes from Belize, the same area where they are supposed to overlap in size, so that tells you everything you need to know about the power of jaguar lb for lb against a felid of similar proportions who is less robust.

Problem is that we don't know their sexes. Who knows if the cougar and jaguar were both males? What if the cougar was a female and the jaguar a large, territorial male? We can only speculate. 

Quote:The two main populations of jaguars that overlap in size with leopards are the Central American and Caatinga, which on the great scheme of total jaguar population represent a small fraction of it. The idea that there is a major overlap between the two species is of course false.

I don't think those jaguars are a small fraction as Central American jaguars basically represent all the populations from (parts of) USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Reply