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The yassou was a tigre de montagne reported from eastern Chad's Ouaddaï Highlands. According to explorer André Joseph Victor de Burthe d'Annelet, who reported its supposed existence in 1932, the yassou is a very aggressive cat which resembles a bear, and, like a bear, is plantigrade, walking on the soles of its feet.[1][2] Tigres de montagne such as the yassou have been regarded as possible machairodontine sabre-toothed cats (~20 MYA–9 KYA); the description of the yassou and certain other tigres de montagne as plantigrade may specifically indicate a Homotherium (~4–0.7 MYA) identity.[1]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shuker, Karl P. N. (2020) Mystery Cats of the World Revisited: Blue Tigers, King Cheetahs, Black Cougars, Spotted Lions, and More, Anomalist Books, ISBN 978-1949501179
- ↑ Burthe d'Annelet, André Joseph Victor de (1932) À Travers l'Afrique Française