Pallas Cats - thank you icanhascheezburger

[essentialsaltes]

How have I gone so long without knowing about Pallas' Cats? Housecat-sized, but definitely different anatomy - stocky and plushy with round pupils and backset ears. They're like a weird monkey-cat.

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Bear Cat

[citizenbrown]

I definitely see the monkey in there, but there's also something about walk that suggests "bear" to me. Tiny little cat-bear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trR04GBpl9E

I didn't know about them either.

-Chun

Re: Bear Cat

[essentialsaltes]

yep, I see the burly bear resemblance too.

Re: Bear Cat

[zorker]

No, no, *this* is a cat-bear:

http://civet.berkeley.edu/~dstrubbe/civets.html

[jsadler]

Coloring on head reminds me of jaguars.
Coloring on tail is like a racoon.

I suspect some cross breeding, "Yeah, just put in a little bit of everything and let's see what we get."

[hagdirt]

How HAVE you gone so long without seeing this cat?

http://www.photobasement.com/have-you-seen-this-cat/

More seriously, they're a very old offshoot on the cat line, which probably explains much of why they look rather like other critters.

[essentialsaltes]

You win the award for the most ridiculously appropriate comment of the year.

[gotham_bound]

LEMUR CATS ZOMG adorable!!!!