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Hi Wade!
I have heard of hunting cheetahs, but this is very obviously a leopard.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
It was posted to illustrate the point that because it is printed, does no make it so, intentional censorship is even less credible. I appreciated the story about Isson, as I never knew he was at the Minot Zoo. I will illustrate how much when I run a picture of him tomorrrow.
Wade Burck
Wade, Isson wasn't at the Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot. Kubla, the son of Isson and Taj was there, and I believe he still is. I apologize if I was not clear on this. We haven't been there, but I was told that Kubla has skin cancer on his face, which I understand is not uncommon among the white cats. Did you ever go up there and see him?
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
I apologize, I reread the letter, and it is Kubla. I personally have never dealt with skin cancer.
Wade
Wade, the only one that we saw with skin cancer was Kanpur (snow white daughter of Bhim and Sumita) at Miami Metrozoo. We saw her in spring 1998, and her entire lower lip had been removed because of the cancer, so she drooled. It was sad, she was so beautiful. She died a few months later.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Thats interesting. I wonder if it is more prevalent in the Snow Whites, or if it is genetic given the Bhim X Sumita cross.
Wade
I think the word cheetah might just translate as "spotted", as in the cheetal deer. I also think in some places local people make no distinction between a cheetah and a leopard. I think the hunting cheetah refered to the animal we know as a cheetah, which could be trained to hunt, to distinguish it from the other "cheetah", the leopard.
I was just looking at another website which stated that in the 1900s India and Iran started importing cheetahs from Africa for hunting purposes, and that they were called "hunting leopards."
Paul,
They can call them whatever they want, and they used to. My tigers were called Burmese by the Ringling press dept. That is surely a Leopard.
Wade
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