Java 159
Sorry if you were looking for a Flash Gordon-esque adventure across another dimension. Instead, you have fallen for Java’s head fake and an elaborate set-up for one of his “leopard’s suck” strips.
While researching the difference between jaguars and leopards I found that their hunting methods are very similar. They both attack from stealth and are excellent climbers (ninja cats). However, since leopards live in places that also have lions, leopards sometimes will drag their prey into a tree so that it isn’t taken away from them by the bigger cat. This includes prey up to the size of small giraffes. Which to me sounds pretty bad-ass, but is yet another point of ridicule for Java to use against leopards.
Maybe I should lay off his crusade against leopards, I don’t want to lose readers because they think he’s a bigot. Really, he’s the Archie Bunker of his generation of felines.
Yeah, but leopards and jaguars do share the feeling to hurt the people who say tat jaguars and leopards are bad at hide and seek because they are always spotted.
Tut-tut! Incorrect. Cheetahs are spotted. Jaguars and leopards have a rosette pattern.
Java is hiding something. Jaguars often share their range with cougars, who are large cats but not Big Cats. But jaguars seldom fight over territory, preferring to growl at each other, then achieve a kind of peaceful co-existence by leaving.
Cougars have a different strategy when they meet another large cat of the same gender. They’re like K’Zin, they scream and they leap. Cougar on cougar fights don’t last long but they are amazingly violent. Cougar on jaguar fights don’t last long either.
Jaguars consider this behavior to be gauche and depart quite quickly, much as they would do when meeting another jaguar. It’s just kind of embarrassing to be a 200-pound cat who seems to be running from a 150-pound one. 🙂