New Leopard Species - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

emperor26 · 03-15-2007, 09:37 AM

According to this news source from Yahoo!, a new species of Leopards where found in Borneo in Southeast Asia.

If your curious, here's the link to learn more:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/...louded_leopard

Well, that's all I have.

Partymember · 03-15-2007, 10:14 AM

awwww, purdy

koosie · 03-15-2007, 10:53 AM

What a lovely pussy-cat! It's amazing this animal's eluded humankind for so long. Well mankind with cameras, books and latin names anyway. Maybe we should all agree as a species to not go all tramping all over Borneo and bugger it up with it a thriving tourist economy like everywhere else. Too much of it has already been cleared for agricultural palm production. I don't begrudge anyone a living but it'd be nice to have some genuinly wild places left. Some jerk even suggested monorails on the Galapogas for chrissakes.

pitbulllady · 03-15-2007, 11:21 AM

What makes these cats unique is that they aren't related to real leopards at all, but are the only two surviving relatives of the Saber-Toothed Cat(Smilodon). Even though these cats are only about the size of a Springer Spaniel, their canine teeth are as long as a full-grown lion's! I brought these up on a Lilo and Stitch forum once, when asked if there was any mammal on Earth that could hang upside down from a relatively flat surface and walk around, like Stitch does. These cats can do just that, having not only retractable claws, but gripping pads on their paws, and their wrist and ankle joints can rotate completely backwards, allowing them to decend a tree or wall head-first, something no other mammal can do, something usually associated with lizards, like geckos. They can also dangle upside down from one hind foot underneath a branch to drop down onto prey. Pretty darn neat kitty cats! I'd love to be able to pet one, just once, since their coats look almost painted on! Knowing me, I'd be highly allergic to them, though, like I am to true big cats.

pitbulllady

Partymember · 03-15-2007, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

What makes these cats unique is that they aren't related to real leopards at all, but are the only two surviving relatives of the Saber-Toothed Cat

Really? Sweet! Whats the other one?

Medikor · 03-15-2007, 01:02 PM

YES! Another feather in the cap of Sasquatch and Nessie believers!

And it never hurts to have more cats.

pitbulllady · 03-15-2007, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Partymember

Really? Sweet! Whats the other one?

They are the two different species of Clouded Leopard. The one just "discovered" was actually known about for decades, but it was just recently found to be a totally different species from the mainland cats.

pitbulllady

03-15-2007, 09:37 AM	#1
emperor26 Foster's Legend Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: California Posts: 725	New Leopard Species According to this news source from Yahoo!, a new species of Leopards where found in Borneo in Southeast Asia. If your curious, here's the link to learn more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/...louded_leopard Well, that's all I have. __________________ See ya!

03-15-2007, 10:14 AM	#2
Partymember super-scientist GO TEAM VENTURE! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lake George Posts: 1,500	awwww, purdy __________________ Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?

03-15-2007, 10:53 AM	#3
koosie Moon-Calf It was just imagination Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern Britain Posts: 695	What a lovely pussy-cat! It's amazing this animal's eluded humankind for so long. Well mankind with cameras, books and latin names anyway. Maybe we should all agree as a species to not go all tramping all over Borneo and bugger it up with it a thriving tourist economy like everywhere else. Too much of it has already been cleared for agricultural palm production. I don't begrudge anyone a living but it'd be nice to have some genuinly wild places left. Some jerk even suggested monorails on the Galapogas for chrissakes. __________________ Aw....Snicket

03-15-2007, 01:02 PM	#6
Medikor Robot Master I'm a bubble man! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 1,428	YES! Another feather in the cap of Sasquatch and Nessie believers! And it never hurts to have more cats. __________________

03-15-2007, 11:21 AM	#4
pitbulllady Co-Administrator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,276	What makes these cats unique is that they aren't related to real leopards at all, but are the only two surviving relatives of the Saber-Toothed Cat(Smilodon). Even though these cats are only about the size of a Springer Spaniel, their canine teeth are as long as a full-grown lion's! I brought these up on a Lilo and Stitch forum once, when asked if there was any mammal on Earth that could hang upside down from a relatively flat surface and walk around, like Stitch does. These cats can do just that, having not only retractable claws, but gripping pads on their paws, and their wrist and ankle joints can rotate completely backwards, allowing them to decend a tree or wall head-first, something no other mammal can do, something usually associated with lizards, like geckos. They can also dangle upside down from one hind foot underneath a branch to drop down onto prey. Pretty darn neat kitty cats! I'd love to be able to pet one, just once, since their coats look almost painted on! Knowing me, I'd be highly allergic to them, though, like I am to true big cats. pitbulllady