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Spotted puma photo

The markings remind me of classic tabby ( tb tb ) cat markings especially those seen on the bengal breed which is descended from domestic and asian leopard cat hybrids . If young pumas usually have spotted markings this could just be a similar mutation , classic tabbies tend to be darker than the usual striped ( T T ) tabbies so such markings on a puma might fade more slowly . It is very pretty !
 
Yes, almost certainly it is a photo of an immature puma - the puma equivalent of an adolescent. Maybe some pumas have trouble outgrowing their baby ways just as some human adolescents do? :p
 
Looks again like the tb gene there , the king cheetah that is .
 
Could it be an onza ? The head seems more elongated, the neck longer and more slender, and the ears longer than a typical cougar.

(Update to that link: Genetic analysis of the animal shot in 1986 showed it to be a cougar.)
 
Doing a quick search on onzas, they seem to be described as being the shape of a cheetah with the colouring of a puma , rather than the shape of a puma with the colouring of a king cheetah/ tb tb tabby cat .
 
spotted cat?

warning, will robinson! this page no longer exits ive tried it twice
 
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