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acb

@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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Deborah Pickett

@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.

acb

@futzle @carithlee How sure are we that it was in fact a felid, rather than some other critter with big eyes and pointy ears?

Deborah Pickett

@acb I'd be pretty confident. Chimu artifacts (and the preceding Moche culture too) feature a shitton of cats, primarily pumas and jaguars. @carithlee

Nika Shilobod

@futzle
@acb @carithlee

Obviously this is more evidence that cats are extraterrestrials (kidding, maybe).

Nika Shilobod

@futzle
@acb @carithlee

Ps: there's a ton of small wildcats down there.

Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)

@futzle @acb @carithlee I absolutely love how nerdy this thread got. Thank you.

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