Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)

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(02-08-2022, 02:14 AM)LoveAnimals Wrote: I would very like to know how much this average would change if that 95 kg euthanized male was included. Up to 67 kg maybe? That's still very impressive, like highly impressive. That would be almost 70 kg average despite including Persian leopards from their whole geographical range including the southern iranian males that have wolf-sized specimens of like 45-50 kg. If we did two separated samples for Northern males and Southern males like for tigers, that there are North Indian tigers and central ones, how much would the northern males average in your opinion? My guess is that they would equal Cougars, at around 70-72 kgish.

I might make a whole average Persian leopard sample with Charger and include all leopard wright's ever recorded from Persia. I will probably share it as I did with that jaguar size chart

Actually on Persian leopards I ony focused in the document of Farhadinia et al. (2014) and leave it like that. Other posters will have more information about these specimens.

Here is the graphic about the specimens used in that document, my be useful:

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This other table, from another document and for specimens actually captured by scientists, my be useful too:

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And finally this is a very old comparative image that I made years ago, may be useful too:

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If they include the 95 kg male probably the average will be about 66 - 66.5 kg, not to much variation, but I am just guessing. All depends of the sample itself and as you can see, we don't have the individual weights. Reply