https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnFAay-zoqIoDy5LfsNDShmyX9u_xNgSt8 · 27 January 2014
Beautiful beast...
ksplawn · 27 January 2014
Is this a regular leopard, or the marsupial version?
Dave Luckett · 27 January 2014
How can you tell? Were you there?
Kevin B · 28 January 2014
ksplawn said:
Is this a regular leopard, or the marsupial version?
The marsupial version is rather more pink.
Joe Felsenstein · 28 January 2014
Speaking of colors, decades ago we also used to hear about another leopard species "the rare Black Panther". Of course this was really just a melanic color variant, so this "species" has been allowed to quietly disappear.
I also remember a National Geographic special years ago about the great conservation work zoos were doing. One of the five examples was a maharaja in India who had preserved, in his private zoo, "the extremely rare White Tiger". He had bred white tigers with each other and got more of them. Apparently the National Geographic people did not know enough biology to put that into perspective. I haven't heard of that "species" in a while either.
eric · 28 January 2014
So beautiful. Makes me want to go back in time 15,000 years and tell the people then "forget the dog - domesticate THAT."
Kevin B · 28 January 2014
eric said:
So beautiful. Makes me want to go back in time 15,000 years and tell the people then "forget the dog - domesticate THAT."
So you come downstairs in the morning and find a dead antelope on the kitchen mat.
bigdakine · 28 January 2014
Looks like that cat is smoking a stoogie...
Ron Okimoto · 30 January 2014
eric said:
So beautiful. Makes me want to go back in time 15,000 years and tell the people then "forget the dog - domesticate THAT."
So that one day you could be petting your purring feline and it would suddenly get the twitches and tear your arm off, and then demand more petting from your lifeless corpse.
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https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 27 January 2014
"Call me Spot one more time, and you'll get to know the claw."
Glen Davidson
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnFAay-zoqIoDy5LfsNDShmyX9u_xNgSt8 · 27 January 2014
Beautiful beast...
ksplawn · 27 January 2014
Is this a regular leopard, or the marsupial version?
Dave Luckett · 27 January 2014
How can you tell? Were you there?
Kevin B · 28 January 2014
Joe Felsenstein · 28 January 2014
Speaking of colors, decades ago we also used to hear about another leopard species "the rare Black Panther". Of course this was really just a melanic color variant, so this "species" has been allowed to quietly disappear.
I also remember a National Geographic special years ago about the great conservation work zoos were doing. One of the five examples was a maharaja in India who had preserved, in his private zoo, "the extremely rare White Tiger". He had bred white tigers with each other and got more of them. Apparently the National Geographic people did not know enough biology to put that into perspective. I haven't heard of that "species" in a while either.
eric · 28 January 2014
So beautiful. Makes me want to go back in time 15,000 years and tell the people then "forget the dog - domesticate THAT."
Kevin B · 28 January 2014
bigdakine · 28 January 2014
Looks like that cat is smoking a stoogie...
Ron Okimoto · 30 January 2014