jaguar runs the gauntlet

[dinosauria101]

Jun 18, 2019 17:59:42 GMT 5 rock said:

Jun 18, 2019 17:20:00 GMT 5 dinosauria101 said:

No it doesn't, you are correct
HOWEVER, many lionesses have been weighed in the wild, and that is how we know they average 130 kg
There is no such evidence for an average jaguar population of 130 kg

show me proof

www.theanimalfiles.com/mammals/carnivores/jaguar.html

That kind of proves my point. The link you gave states a weight range which 95 kg is a reasonable mean for

[creature386]

To be fair, maybe I was a bit strict yesterday. The general point was to talk about source usage since this is something people here struggle with.

The greater problem is that none of these websites mentions an average weight at all. I did not talk about this, since I considered "Search for a source which supports what you are saying" to be too obvious.

Another point on using good sources for "average weights" is that not everyone agrees on what exactly that means. If you used NatGeo as a source for both the jaguar and the lioness, that would be fine, as the same is likely meant both times and no animal would be unfairly disadvantaged. The problem, of course, is that NatGeo mentions no such thing for any of them.