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Published: 2013-06-21 23:22:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 678; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 17
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This jaguar reminds me of that cat breed with the folded ears (Scottish Folds - www.catloversdiary.com/wp-cont⦠). It's almost like her ears are too low or something.
Seems to be a running theme at the Sacramento Zoo too, as the male tiger has the same thing going on. What gives?
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The cats you mentioned don't have clipped ears, they're Scottish Folds or a similar breed. It's inherited. I suspect Cougars in the future may also develop flop ears because the babies being born in zoos I see now keep the infantile flopped ears long after they should have stiffened and become upright.Β
Great photo, but do you know why she has a wrinkled indent in her skull? It looks off-center, is it a deformity or injury perhaps? It'd be a shame if it was genetic. Such magnificent creatures we are inbreeding into pathetic oblivion... Wall eyed/cross eyed lions and tigers, for example... I see randomly wrinkled faces on a lot of zoo stock jaguars lately, it's bizarre, like they're breeding shar-pei jaguars...
Great photo though. Sorry, I study animals, the more you learn the more faults you see... :/Β
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Ah, thanks so much for the correction. You know what they say, 95% of information is misinformation. I read it online somewhere many years ago and just internalized it as true. As for skull deformities, I didn't really notice anything while I was shooting, and it's difficult to tell if the indentation you see is actually there or not in the other photos I have of this jaguar.
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As best I can tell, this can be chalked up to shar-pei face, like you mentioned. No worries about the correction though. 
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If I recall correctly, I think they might also clip cat's ears in Japan, but I can't recall exactly where I read that. I didn't notice the same dip in her skull in other pics, maybe it was just a strange angle. I notice on some angles cougars have a similar dip in the sides of the forehead. Agree about the studbooks only being able to help a certain amount and no more. People tend to think that zoos are preserving the genes that will be used to repopulate the wild, but I doubt it. It's a shame but I expect we'll see many more extinctions in our lifetimes. At least cloning and such are making progress.
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Thank you.
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