Big Cat Blogging

[petardier]

Ha! Atrios is copying me for a change:

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_05_22_atrios_archive.html#111722721215384520



This is Pascal, the papa jaguar. It was just a yawn. No need to worry. I wish I'd been able to frame the picture properly, but these sorts of things happen so quickly I'm lucky to have caught it at all.

It's weird, but it looks to me like he's got that spot pattern inside his mouth as well as outside. Unless that's some odd reflection or artifact digital photography?



Ok, it's not a big cat or even alive, but how many statues of animals and their poop are there?

Comments

[rhyolight04.livejournal.com]

The poop is a new addiiton. I suppose we should be glad no broze folk medicine practitioners have cut off the horn.

[psongster.livejournal.com]

The spot pattern continuing inside the mouth isn't odd to me. Both the skin and the mouth lining come from the same layer of embryonic cells (the ectoderm) ... from a historical point of view they are the same thing. You can see similar color patterns showing up in a lot of domestic cats and dogs.

[petardier.livejournal.com]

I've fed pills to enough cats and dogs to have seen blackish/dark brownish spots on a pink background inside their mouths, but the white background was new to me.

Very interesting to know how it all develops.