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Four, according to these film makers:

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Two facts checked: (1) Sunquist and Sunquist note the jaguar tail-fishing only as a story (and, awesomely, that local native traditions associate jaguars with thunder, lightning, and rain); (2) Snow leopards are not a species of “Panthera pardus,” as noted below.

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Molecular biology has changed things.

Careful research on feline DNA shows that there is a fifth big cat: Panthera uncia —

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Closely related to tigers, believe it or not!

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Meanwhile, poor Tigger is caught in the middle, but does have some big-cat affinities:

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A little lagniappe:

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As for Ole Thunder’n’Lightning…

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Featured image: Image by Birgit from Pixabay

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Sources:

Sunquist, M. and Sunquist, F. 2002. Wild Cats of the World. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=IF8nDwAAQBAJ

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