Photo by Ottomar Anschütz] [Berlin.
CHEETA.
A cheeta is a hunting-leopard; this one is a particularly large specimen. The cheetas are dealt with later on in this chapter.
Photo by G.W. Wilson & Co., Ltd.] [Aberdeen.
JAGUAR.
The largest and strongest of the Cats of the New World. A South American species.
THE NEW WORLD CATS.
The cats, great and small, of the New World resemble those of the Old, though not quite so closely as the caribou, wapiti deer, and moose of the northern forests resemble the reindeer, red deer, and elk of Europe. They are like, but with a difference. The Jaguar and the Ocelot are respectively larger and far more beautiful than their counterparts, the leopard and serval cats. But the Puma, the one medium-sized feline animal which is unspotted, is something unique. The jaguar and puma are found very far south in South America; and though the jaguar is really a forest animal, it seems to have wandered out on to the Pampas of Argentina, perhaps attracted by the immense numbers of cattle, sheep, and horses on these plains.