Summary: <p>I’ve been meaning to do a big cat episode for a while, thanks to listener Damian who suggested lions and tigers! But when I started my research, I immediately got distracted by all the reports of mysterious big cats. So here’s another mysteries episode!</p> <p>Here are the links to some Patreon episodes that I’ve unlocked for anyone to listen to. Just click on the link and a page will open, and you can listen on the page. No need to log in.</p> <p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/15881168">Marsupial lions</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/9983461">Blue tigers and black lions</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/18554956">The Queensland tiger</a>, which is not actually about any kind of actual tiger</p> <p>A lion and cub. This picture made me die:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-795" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/lionandcub-300x175.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="175"></p> <p>The Barbary lion, possibly extinct, possibly not:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-796" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Barbary_lion-300x205.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="205"></p> <p>Watch out! Tigers!</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-797" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tigers-300x173.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="173"></p> <p>A king leopard with stripe-like markings instead of spots:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-798" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/kingleopard-1-300x178.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="178"></p> <p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-cats.htm">Hybrid and Mutant big cats</a></p> <p><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/mystery-big-cat-skulls-from-the-peruvian-amazon-not-so-mysterious-anymore/">Peruvian mystery jaguar skulls studied</a></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 some mystery big cats. We’ve touched on big cats before in various episodes, including the British Big Cats phenomenon in episode 52. We’re definitely going to see some more out of place animals this week, along with lots of information about big cats of various kinds. Thanks to Damian who requested an episode about lions and tigers ages ago.</p> <p>I’ve also unlocked three Patreon episodes so that anyone can listen to them. They won’t show up in your feed, but there are links in the show notes and you can click through and listen on your browser without needing a patreon login. The first is about</p>
