@carithlee @futzle I’m guessing that’s not a F. cattus; didn’t those come from Eurasia with European colonists? If so, I wonder what species that would have been
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@carithlee @futzle I’m guessing that’s not a F. cattus; didn’t those come from Eurasia with European colonists? If so, I wonder what species that would have been 6 comments
@futzle @carithlee How sure are we that it was in fact a felid, rather than some other critter with big eyes and pointy ears? @acb I'd be pretty confident. Chimu artifacts (and the preceding Moche culture too) feature a shitton of cats, primarily pumas and jaguars. @carithlee @futzle @acb @carithlee I absolutely love how nerdy this thread got. Thank you. |
@acb @carithlee Good point; I would have guessed perhaps a puma given the area of the Chimu culture that likely made it, but I see there are other wild cats in the region such as the ocelot, pampas cat, and the Andean mountain cat.