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| Big territorial male leopards; Only territorial male leopards starting 60 kilograms and over | |
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| figantee | Apr 7 2014, 04:13 AM Post #766 |
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| figantee | Apr 7 2014, 04:15 AM Post #767 |
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I detest these hunters. Edited by figantee, Jun 21 2017, 09:20 AM.
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| Kurtz | Apr 7 2014, 04:18 AM Post #768 |
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| figantee | Apr 7 2014, 05:25 AM Post #769 |
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| figantee | Apr 7 2014, 05:27 AM Post #770 |
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this man left image appears to be quite high (1.90) so the leopard will seem small. |
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| romanianborz | Apr 7 2014, 09:34 PM Post #771 |
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For me, the persian leopards are quite a mistery. Acording to Bergman's Rule, the largest leopards sould be the northernmost ssp. like north chinese leopard and Amur leopard. On the contrary, the persian is the largest, followed by some apfrican leopards wich are very big for some mammals living in tropical areas... Nevertheless, persians are huge. Unfortunately, recent a male was shot with pellets and cannot be salved. His weight, even wounded and dehidrated was an enormous 95 kilo ! What a lose for the relatively small genepoool fo this particular ssp. |
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| Kurtz | Apr 9 2014, 09:43 PM Post #772 |
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a rare thing, a tolerance of such beastly territorial male leopard for a adult female and his daughter: another impressive thing how the hell a 14 yrs old male have yet that shocking forequarters and that muscle mass? |
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| Kurtz | Apr 9 2014, 09:51 PM Post #773 |
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Tingana killed a 180 kilograms wildbeest Mvula versus Tingana. There is much debate surrounding these two dominant male leopards. While the one (Mvula) is dominant in the East, the other (Tingana) is dominant in the West. They are both formidable predators, each capable of bringing down large adversaries, often much heavier then themselves and evinced just this morning when Tingana was discovered on Safari airstrip with a massive female wildebeest, killed the night before and weighing in the vicinity of 180kg! This now begs the question, how much do both Tingana and Mvula weigh? A speculative question as without darting and weighing them, no conclusive answer can be given, leaving only personal opinion as to which of these two magnificent cats is the larger... What we can surmise is that the average weight for male leopards is between 70-85kg with the occasional individual weighing in at little over 100kg as was the case with an individual shot in the Limpopo valley a number of years ago. If we calculate that both dominant leopards are a little above average in size, we can approximate that they both weigh in the vicinity of 80-90kgs being successful, dominant cats maintaining territories in one of the most competitive regions in Africa. You can now imagine the strength needed to first overpower and kill a creature twice your own weight, and then to drag this dead weight for a fair distance across an open area and into a thicket where it is safe from the prying eyes of vultures soaring high above! This is exactly what Tingana did in front of our vehicles this morning as we watched in awe. Oblivious to our presence, he cautiously left his shaded hidey-hole after surveying his surroundings for any potential threats and proceeded to spend the next twenty minutes dragging the wildebeest carcass, inch by inch, only resting for intermittent moments before proceeding further and further. He only gave up once his carcass accidentally wedged in between two bushes and would go no further. It was at this stage that we decided to leave him, having spent the majority of the morning with him and previously, with hippos and a lone hyena trekking along Seep-line in search of prey. The previous evening was first spent with a few rhinos at an undisclosed location, some elephants, then, a pair of dagga boys (lone buffalo bulls) and thereafter the hyaena den where we sat and watched three cubs and a single adult while away the afternoon basking in the sun. En route home we had a fantastic encounter with Mvula in the East as he walked along various roads, scent marking and calling aloud in short, defiant bursts as he announced his domination over his surroundings to all within earshot. A warning to any elopers that he was in town, and should you wish to avoid confrontation, take heed of his warning! On a different note, while we were watching Tingana this morning we were also informed that a pack of wild dogs was making their way into our area. Some rangers responded and were fortunate enough to see the pack (I was informed 11 were seen) crossing the main road into our area for the briefest minutes before crossing back to the area they had come from. Their last confirmed sighting was of them running eastward towards Nkorho. Hold thumbs they make their way into our area this afternoon!!! Kind Regards Sean Matthewson      https://www.facebook.com/groups/13451629919/permalink/10152219471394920/ Edited by Kurtz, Apr 9 2014, 10:10 PM.
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| 1977marc | Apr 10 2014, 04:02 AM Post #774 |
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I knew this took place kurtz, but not with this story and pictures. I think tingana is longer but mvula is heavier built more like camp pan. Great to hear about 200 a 220 pound leopards anderson male is bigger than tingana. Son of emsagwen male |
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| romanianborz | Apr 10 2014, 04:09 AM Post #775 |
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To much savanna leopards. There is so much pics and info about them... I really want to see african forst leopards, persian leopards, and indian leopards. Unfortunately most of the infos are about the savanna leopard. |
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| figantee | Apr 10 2014, 11:25 AM Post #776 |
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good photos
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| figantee | Apr 12 2014, 09:14 AM Post #777 |
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ok
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| Kurtz | Apr 12 2014, 07:29 PM Post #778 |
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fantastic specimen where is he come from? |
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| Kurtz | Apr 12 2014, 08:11 PM Post #779 |
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hey, read ALL the pages before, there are tremendous leopards posted from chui from central Africa and north iran! For sample there is a colossal male from gabon posted by Chui at pag. 24 of this topic and this topic is full of sri Lankan males and from all parts of Africa, from india the are huges males captured etc. Edited by Kurtz, Apr 12 2014, 08:22 PM.
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| figantee | Apr 13 2014, 12:54 AM Post #780 |
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Edited by figantee, Apr 13 2014, 03:02 AM.
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