Mesoamerican Jaguars

[Luipaard]

Plus there's the fact that where jaguars and cougars coexist, the jaguar tends to aim for the larger prey and the cougar the small prey in order to avoid any kind of confrontation.

However, while @Pckts has a good point regarding the large populations in Pantanal, I believe some particular cougar (and leopard) populations can rival even an average Pantanal male jaguar. The North American cougar (Canada) and those more in the South (Chile) appear very impressive and attain quite high weights.

I wonder what others their opinion is regarding this subject. I am not that well informed when it comes to jaguars and cougars but I find there sympatric behaviour very fascinating. 

I've shared this photo before, but this cougar looks very robust and easily rivals a jaguar in terms of robustness in my opinion:

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