Comparing Cats: A Discussion of Similarities & Differences

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@Hello 

" Even if the head wasn't turned around it wouldn't make any big difference. There are many male leopards who have thicker necks, especially thicker on dorsal area (top region between back of the head and shoulders.) Even the jaguar in the above post doesn't have much thickness in dorsal part of the neck to  leopards . "

All felines have a very powerful neck. It's easy to understand why, after having killed a prey they often have to carry ou drag it... Especially leopards because interactions they could have with lions and hyenas in Africa, tigers in India, they need to carry their prey upto a tree in order to eat it quietly. Even so you cannot say that a jaguar has a thin neck.

I don't know if you have seen these posts:
https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-compari...#pid140930
at #357 and #358
From PCKTS in the #358: " So that being said, these Jags show a consistent girth advantage to the Leopard, the only category of girth the Leopard wins is the neck but we know the dewlap isn’t muscle and that number generally is inflated if we’re comparing actual muscle mass. "

As you can read "dewlaps isn't muscle" and as concerns the photos you showed dewlaps were particularly big. Reply