Sri Lankan Leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya)

[Dr Panthera]

(12-06-2015, 10:52 PM)SVTIGRIS Wrote: @GuateGojira interesting that, surprised that without lions or tigers leopards don't seem to fluctuate too much in size, I do however believe if we had to choose a largest subspecies of leopard I would still go for the Sri Lankan. Just due to the logic factor.

M.Farhidinia et al. published a comparative study of different leopard populations from around the world and concluded that Persian leopards are likely to be the largest in the world, they too no longer have lions nor tigers to compete with and have a good number of large and medium sized ungulates to exploit...note how leopards from both populations do not tree their kills but even the largest leopards in Africa and India do in areas where tigers, lions, or spotted hyenas abound.
And you are absolutely right there is little fluctuation with P.p.kotiya with most males in the 50's and 60's kg with the largest being 77 kg...African leopards can near 100 kg but some dwarf leopards hardly reach 30 kg. Reply