Consider the Onza

March 3, 2005 8:04 AM

The lion shall lay down with the lamb. But first, it shall lay down with the tiger, the leopard, and the jaguar. And then smaller cats will lay down with different smaller cats, and then there are those gazelles and bears that were always hard enough to tell apart anyway, well, now we can't seem to keep them apart. Long live the anomalous felids!
posted by breezeway (17 comments total)

Insert Napoleon Dynamite reference here.

Also, "pumapard" is an incredible word.
posted by Sticherbeast at 8:10 AM on March 3, 2005

Great post, breezeway!

(By the way, domestic cat lovers definitely need to also check out the messybeast.com link from the anomalous felids page.)
posted by taz at 8:42 AM on March 3, 2005

and then there are those gazelles and bears that were always hard enough to tell apart anyway
Aww...I was expecting some sort of giant, horned behemoth...
posted by Sangermaine at 9:07 AM on March 3, 2005

Crap! King Ghidorah disappeared! Maybe Ultraman tossed him off the internet:


posted by breezeway at 9:34 AM on March 3, 2005

Those tags...so beautiful...
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 9:37 AM on March 3, 2005

Maybe Ultraman should toss me off the internet, too. I hardly make any sense as it is.
posted by breezeway at 9:50 AM on March 3, 2005

The lion shall lie down with the lamb.
posted by beagle at 9:54 AM on March 3, 2005

Umm... is that Ultraman or Jet-Jaguar?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:26 AM on March 3, 2005

The Georgia Mystery Cat (northeast Georgia, USA) observed half a mile from the confluence of the Hudson River and Broad River in 2004 is described as resembling a very large domestic cat with the face and ears of a bobcat, but an extremely long tail (bobcats have bobbed tails, but pantherine cats have rounded ears). It has been heard screaming and eye-witnessed describe it as a 2.5-3 ft tall and 4-5.5 ft long, including its tail. It has been captured on video, but not identified.

Hmmm... that is *exactly* where I live. The Broad River is my farm's back boundary, and I'm about a half-mile upriver from the confluence. Maybe that's what's been eating my chickens. I've chased off a beautiful red fox that matches the above description on many occasions (sometimes with a chicken in his mouth) -- I wonder if that's what they filmed.
posted by ewagoner at 10:26 AM on March 3, 2005

Thanks, beagle. Bad grammar ruins everything.

What did you think of the links?
posted by breezeway at 10:27 AM on March 3, 2005

AAAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! so cute!!!

Thanks for the links breeze.
posted by Lizc at 10:50 AM on March 3, 2005

Also, "pumapard" is an incredible word.

I'm partial to "zebadonk," myself.
posted by nebulawindphone at 11:09 AM on March 3, 2005

Mystery cats make cute kittens.
posted by breezeway at 12:00 PM on March 3, 2005

Unfortunately, many hybrid big cats suffer from congenital immune deficiencies.
posted by breezeway at 12:04 PM on March 3, 2005

Impossible Creatures.

Some day, I'm going to publish my thesis that there's a video game for everything.
posted by DaShiv at 2:34 PM on March 3, 2005

Ass zebra?
posted by Mr Bismarck at 1:48 AM on March 4, 2005

Since I just got to play with some real lion and tiger cubs last weekend (held the smallest lion cubs!), I am less fascinated by the unusual cats than I would have been a week ago. Lion cubs are very comfortable a long time, but the tigers get too energetic (wishing to hunt or play rough) too soon.
posted by Goofyy at 2:12 AM on March 4, 2005