Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.
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The lion, tiger, leopard, and 'big cat' species have cubs, the smaller cats have kittens. A puma (cougar) is not a 'big cat', it is the largest of the Lesser Cats.
Pantherine cats, the two clouded leopards, and the snow leopard have cubs. All others have kittens-- with two exceptions.
Lynx have kittens.
Scottish wildcats have kittens.
And cougars/pumas/mountains are not pantherine cats nor are cheetahs.
The would technically have kittens, but we usually say they have cubs.
Pantherine cats are the ones in the genus Panthera (lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar). These cats plus the snow and clouded leopards are the "big cats."
All the rest are "small cats," even though the smallest big cats (the two clouded leopard species) are smaller than the largest small cat (the cougar/puma/mountain lion).
Now, as an American, foxes don't have cubs. They have kits.
Thanks chaps.
Thanks Chaps.
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