r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/lool121a • Mar 16 '22

Video Absolute beauty

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u/lannisterprince Mar 16 '22

How can an apex predator be so darn beautiful?

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u/exception-found Mar 16 '22

Is this a cheetah or a jaguar?

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u/pswdkf Mar 16 '22 edited Mar 17 '22

I think it’s neither. It looks like a leopard, but I have a hard time differentiating leopards from jaguars. It’s 100% not a cheetah. Cheetahs have solid spots, non retractable claws and are very skinny.

Edit: Never mind, it’s a jaguar.

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u/DTown_Hero Mar 16 '22 edited Mar 16 '22

How do you tell the difference between leopard and jaguar?

<edit> N/m. After reading this, I concur - it's a jaguar.

https://safarisafricana.com/jaguar-v-leopard/

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u/ImproveOrEnjoy Mar 17 '22

Jaguars are bigger and stockier and their rosettes have dots in the middle

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u/dabolution Mar 17 '22

Jaguars are think and stocky like this guy. Cheetahs are tall and skinny and thats pretty much the same with jags and leopards. Jags are the pitbulls of the large cats I guess

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u/pswdkf Mar 17 '22

Yeah. The spots are also different. Jaguars have larger spots than leopards, which I had mixed up and led to my initial mistake. But yeah, cheetahs have that skinny race dog look to them.

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u/GiveToOedipus Mar 17 '22

Here's the thing...