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3 unusual facts about Panthera


Jerningham wine cooler

He employed the sculptor John Michael Rysbrack to model the Bacchanalian scenes on the bowl, the crouching panthers beneath and the satyr handles.

Kaemsekhem

Kaemsekhem was standing with a staff, dressed in a short outfit with a panther-skin over it.

Yoshikazu Yahiro

His stage name was comes from the place he was born, Mie Prefecture where the Suzuka racing circuit is, his favorite guitarist, Steve Vai from which he adopted the letter V, and his look, many people think he looks like a panther, especially when he had pink-dyed hair.


Black panther

Melanism in the jaguar (Panthera onca) is conferred by a dominant allele, and in the leopard (Panthera pardus) by a recessive allele.

British Lions

Lions (Panthera leo), the lion is a traditional symbol of Great Britain, although it also used as a symbol in various other cultures

Lake Petén Itzá

This lake has more than 100 important indigenous species such as the red snook fish (Petenia splendida), crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus acutus), jaguars (Panthera onca), Pumas (Puma concolor), White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), red brocket (Mazana americana), and several bird species, including parrots, toucans, and macaws.

Panthera leo fossilis

With a maximum head and body length of 2.40 meters, which is about half a meter longer than today's African lions, Panthera leo fossilis was almost as big as the American lion from the Upper Pleistocene.

The oldest records of Panthera leo fossilis in Europe are from Isernia at Italy and are about 700,000 years old.

Satpura Range

These forest enclaves provide habitat to several at risk and endangered species, including the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris), gaur (Bos gaurus), dhole (Cuon alpinus), sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra).

Subspecies

A tiger's binomen is Panthera tigris, so for a Sumatran tiger the trinomen is, for example, Panthera tigris sumatrae.

Tsavo lion

Tsavo lions (Panthera leo nubica) are a distinct variety of lion living around the Tsavo River in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya.


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