Four, according to these film makers:
https://youtu.be/UiFjONQDHNM&rel=0
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.
Molecular biology has changed things.
Careful research on feline DNA shows that there is a fifth big cat: Panthera uncia —
https://youtu.be/ZFuQJVBZ09U&rel=0
Closely related to tigers, believe it or not!
Meanwhile, poor Tigger is caught in the middle, but does have some big-cat affinities:
https://youtu.be/AeWS4kNqVFg&rel=0
A little lagniappe:
https://youtu.be/KckYcuiKAN8&rel=0
As for Ole Thunder’n’Lightning…
https://youtu.be/RXVfDgQr3K8&end=21
Featured image: Image by Birgit from Pixabay
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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