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CHEETAH HYBRIDS
Puma (America). The two species could only meet in a zoo or menagerie and I have found no reported attempts to breed cheetah/puma hybrids. Cryptozoologists once thought the North American "Onza" (a long-legged form of puma) might be a non-spotted relict form of American cheetah. SERVEETAH A serval/cheetah hybrid has been posited. Although both are long-legged cats, the size difference ...
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MUTANT PUMAS
In an isolated population, a colour morph can become more common due to inbreeding.. This individual is also lean and leggy. There is also a gracile (long-legged) form of Puma known as the Onza. This was once thought to be a relict population of a prehistoric Cheetah, but now appears to be a variant of the puma. USEFUL GENETIC TERMS Textual content is licensed under the GFDL. For more ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Small Cat
Borneo was known to exist only in stories and identified by a few skins in museums. It was not actually studied in the wild until the late 1990s! There are reports of a cat known only as the onza from Mexico, which may be related to the mountain lion. It is as big as a mountain lion but more slender. Scientists have only seen one, which had been killed by hunters. There is also the Iriomote cat ...
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