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Big cats like lions are perhaps the most powerful of all mammal predators. These measurements are from the nose to tip of the tail. The length of tail varies – a leopard’s tail can be as long as 110 cm and a jaguar’s tail as short as 45 cm.

Tiger (Asia) 330 cm

Leopard (Asia, Africa) 320 cm

Lion (Africa,Asia) 280 cm

Jaguar (North, Central and South America) 271 cm

Mountain lion (North, Central and South America) 245 cm

Snow leopard (Asia) 240 cm

Cheetah (Africa, Asia) 220 cm

Clouded leopard (Asia) 197 cm

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