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    Difference between a jaguar leopard and a cheetah

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    4. Caninetrainer on

      Cheetahs are brought up with Golden Retrievers in captivity. I have always loved that

    6. BrieBelle00 on

      The letter ‘j’ has a dot, and jaguars “spots” have dots. That’s how I’ve always remembered

    7. Kushakusha on

      Leopard is stealthy nasty piece of puke. Almost give me heart attack when I was in India. That big cat was jumping from wall to wall evading the sticks. That’s the last time I’m visiting India.

    10. MarshmallowSunshine on

      Leopard and jaguar are much more closely related. Cheetahs are more genetically unique having split off a couple million years before the other two species

    11. GlitterBombFallout on

      Cheetahs are felinae or “small cats” and more closely related to house cats. Leopards and jaguars are pantherinae, “big cats,” and closer to lions and tigers. Cheetah spots are more like convergent evolution due to similar environments rather than because they’re closely related.

      Leopards split from jaguars about 3.6 million years ago. The pantherinae and felinae split was almost 11 million years ago.

    13. kungpowgoat on

      Cheetahs are easy to identify. They’re the only ones with the “tears” lines running down their eyes.

    14. Thevenard on

      Cheetahs are big small cats, not small big cats, and that’s a big difference.

    15. Biscuits4u2 on

      Cheetahs are much smaller and don’t have razor sharp retractable claws. They actually make decent pets and I knew someone who grew up with one.

    21. Coolguy191500 on

      Not a lot of people know this, but a black panther is not a species – it can refer to either a leopard or a jaguar with melanism. What I find most interesting is that they are two different mutations, it’s not because they are closely related species with analogous genes.

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