Summary: <p>This week we’re going to learn about some more big cats, especially the mysterious onza of Mexico and the yemish of Patagonia.</p> <p>And you should totally check out the charming podcast <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cool-facts-about-animals/id1334467437?mt=2">Cool Facts about Animals</a>.</p> <p>A jaguar:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-538" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jaguar-300x171.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="171"></p> <p>A jaguarundi:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-535" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jaguarundi-300x218.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="218"></p> <p>A puma, not dead:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-537" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Puma-Jumping-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>The Rodriguez onza, dead:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-536" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Rodriguez-onza-ISC-300x203.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="203"></p> <p>A giant otter:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-357" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/giantotter1.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="137"></p> <p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.karlshuker.com/encyclopaedia.htm">The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals</a> by Karl P.N. Shuker</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15779792-monsters-of-patagonia">Monsters of Patagonia</a> by Austin Whittall</p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>This week we’re going to learn about a couple of mystery cats that you might not have heard of, and learn about a few non-mystery animals along the way.</p> <p>There are several cats native to Mexico. We’ve talked about the puma recently, in episode 52. It’s the same cat that’s also called the cougar or mountain lion, and it lives throughout most of the Americas. It’s tawny or brownish in color with few markings beyond dark and white areas on the face, and sometimes faint tail rings and mottled spots on the legs.</p> <p>The jaguar is a spotted cat related to lions, tigers, leopards, and other big cats. It lives throughout much of Central and South America, and in North America as far north as Mexico, and was once common in the southwestern United States too but was hunted to extinction there. It prefers tropical forests and swamps, likes to swim, and is relatively stocky with a shorter tail than its relatives. Its background color is tawny or brownish with a white belly, and its spots, called rosettes, are darker. But melanistic jaguars aren’t especially uncommon. They look all bl</p>
