thanks to all my friends who were so excited to tell me about the discovery of a new big cat!!!!!!
altho it's more a technicality, the clouded leopard on mainland indonesia, and the island of borneo have been with us for many many years.
the clouded leopard, viewable in purrson here in the uxa, if you have access to the san diego zoo. lives in indonesia.
recently "scientists" have used dna studies to determine that the clouded leopard that lives on the island of borneo, is a seperate species of the clouded leopard. i.e. there are 8 species of tigers, but they are all tigers!
the more interesting info for me is that the dna finding said that lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards asain snow leopards, and clouded leopards all share a common ancestor and are thought to be between 6 & 10 million years old.
hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
how advanced was this little species call homo sapien then? oh, didn't exist yet. hehehehe
*** (Based on morphological evidence, British zoologist Reginald Pocock concluded that the jaguar was most closely related to the leopard.[16] However, DNA evidence is inconclusive and the position of the Jaguar relative to the other species varies between studies.[12][14][15][16] Fossils of extinct Panthera species, such as the European jaguar (Panthera gombaszoegensis) and the American lion (Panthera atrox), show characteristics of both the lion and the jaguar.[16] Analysis of jaguar mitochondrial DNA has dated the species lineage to between 280,000 and 510,000 years ago, later than suggested by fossil records.[18] - boosted from wikipedia)
altho it's more a technicality, the clouded leopard on mainland indonesia, and the island of borneo have been with us for many many years.
the clouded leopard, viewable in purrson here in the uxa, if you have access to the san diego zoo. lives in indonesia.
recently "scientists" have used dna studies to determine that the clouded leopard that lives on the island of borneo, is a seperate species of the clouded leopard. i.e. there are 8 species of tigers, but they are all tigers!
the more interesting info for me is that the dna finding said that lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards asain snow leopards, and clouded leopards all share a common ancestor and are thought to be between 6 & 10 million years old.
hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
how advanced was this little species call homo sapien then? oh, didn't exist yet. hehehehe
*** (Based on morphological evidence, British zoologist Reginald Pocock concluded that the jaguar was most closely related to the leopard.[16] However, DNA evidence is inconclusive and the position of the Jaguar relative to the other species varies between studies.[12][14][15][16] Fossils of extinct Panthera species, such as the European jaguar (Panthera gombaszoegensis) and the American lion (Panthera atrox), show characteristics of both the lion and the jaguar.[16] Analysis of jaguar mitochondrial DNA has dated the species lineage to between 280,000 and 510,000 years ago, later than suggested by fossil records.[18] - boosted from wikipedia)
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