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

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Heaviest jaguars on record
Maybe someone could add more data, but for the moment, this is what I have found.
 
Just a correction, according with Google books, the edition of De Almeida book that I have used is of 1990, not 1993.
 
Records of the heaviest jaguars (Panthera onca) from scientific sources and reliable hunting literature:
·         Brazil:
      o    148 kg. Pantanal, South of Brazil [Radiocollared by scientists in the field] (Cavalcanti, Pers. Comm., 2012).
      o    130 kg. Porto Primavera, South of Brazil (Morato et al., 2001).
      o    119 kg. Pantanal, South of Brazil. (De Almeida, 1990; Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002).
      o    105 kg. Emas NP, Center of Brazil. (Soares et al., 2006).
·         Venezuela:
      o    121 kg. Los Llanos, Venezuela. (Hoogesteijn & Mondolfi, 1993; Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002).
      o    93 kg. Hato Piñero, Venezuela. (Scognamillo et al., 2003).
·         Paraguay: 106 kg. Chaco paraguayo (McBride, 2007).
·         Amazonas: 96 kg. No specific location (Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002).
·         Bolivia: 93 kg. Guapore river (De Almeida, 1990).
·         Central America: 66 kg. Belize (Rabinowitz & Nottingham, 1996; Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002).
·         United States of America:
      o    63.6 kg. Texas (Schmidly & Davis, 2004).
      o    53.5 kg. Arizona (Arizona Game and Fish Department, 2009).
·         Peru: 37 kg. Peruvian forest (Hoogesteijn & Mondolfi, 1996; Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002).
 
* Note: Some of the records belong to small samples and offers only suggestive results. There are reports in Brazil and Venezuela of jaguars of up to 145-160 kg in literature (Guggisberg, 1975; Hoogesteijn & Mondolfi, 1993), but this may represent gorged specimens (De Almeida, 1990) and in some cases, it is difficult to confirm those figures.
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