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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.

8 Oct 2023 at 23:41 | Wall-to-wall | Open on old.mermaid.town
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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?

8 Oct 2023 at 23:43 | Open on mastodon.social
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

8 Oct 2023 at 23:49 | Open on old.mermaid.town
Nika Shilobod

@futzle
@acb @carithlee

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

9 Oct 2023 at 1:43 | Open on fediscience.org
Nika Shilobod

@futzle
@acb @carithlee

Ps: there's a ton of small wildcats down there.
9 Oct 2023 at 1:45 | Open on fediscience.org
Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)

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

9 Oct 2023 at 1:48 | Open on vis.social
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