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Illustration of the striped jaguar by Peter Visccher. The striped jaguar is said to have white, not black, stripes.
The striped jaguar or striped tiger is a cryptid felid reported from the rainforests of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. In Peru it is known from the Rio Abujao, Pozuzo, and Rio Palcazu regions.[1][2][3][4]
It is described as being the same size as the jaguar, but with tan-coloured fur with white, tiger-like stripes. The head is also slightly narrower than that of a jaguar, whilst its fangs are about the same size. It is known to sometimes track hunters.[1]
Peter J. Hocking acquired a skull which a hunter claimed was that of a striped jaguar in 1992.[1] The skull was identified as that of a jaguar based on its morphology, which was closest to that of the jaguar, though the scientist Darren Naish, who collaborated with Hocking and others on the study, cautioned that the skull may not actually be that of the striped jaguar and may instead be a normal jaguar skull supplied in lieu of an original skull.[1][5]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, ABC-CLIO, Inc., ISBN 1576072835
- ↑ Shuker, Karl P. N. "A Supplement to Dr Bernard Heuvelmans' Checklist of Cryptozoological Animals," Fortean Studies, Vol. 5 (1998)
- ↑ Hocking, Peter J. "Large Peruvian Mammals Unknown to Zoology", Cryptozoology 11 (1992)
- ↑ Shuker, Karl P. N. (2010) Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo: From the Pages of Fortean Times, CFZ Press, ISBN 978-1-905723-62-1
- ↑ Naish, Darren, "Mystery big cat skulls from the Peruvian Amazon not so mysterious anymore" , Tetrapod Zoology, 2014