Did you spot the animal in the photo sent by Anne Houde? Here’s the reveal, an enlargement, and a photo of the animal out of hiding. It’s a jaguar (Panthera onca)!

And the animal out of hiding:

Anne said “I shot the photos along the Tambopata River in Peru.”

Reader Tim E. sent a “spot the cats” photo. I rate this one “pretty easy”, so if you’re a beginner start here.

I was in Rome last week taking a tour of the ancient ruins.  There was one I thought you would take a particular interest in, Largo di Torre Argentina.  As the tour guide was telling us it (it is very near where Caesar was assassinated) I noticed a number of cats lazing about in the ruins.  I snapped a quick picture thinking it would make a good “Spot the…” post. There are (at least) 5 in the picture.

The guide said that at one point there were more than 350 cats in the ruins.  In total I noticed about 10 once I started looking for them. Of course, most of them were just napping.

The answer is below the fold, but don’t look till you’ve seen at least five cats. Click the picture to enlarge it.

Continue reading “Spot the cats!” →

While I write a new post, here’s some fun. Reader Roger sent a photo of his cat with a “spot the. . .” quiz and a note. I think this would be classified as “dead easy”:

For a bit of weekday morning fun, Aeryn invites you to play “Spot the gorilla.”

A bit more about Gorilla Cat: “Aeryn’s the 14-year old who was born in one of my window wells.”

(The title could refer to the name of a cat, but it doesn’t.)

This is part of a series by famed wildlife photographer Art Wolfe, who has a series of hard-to-see wildlife (I’m not gonna tell you where it is, as that would spoil future fun).

Can you spot the leopard (Panthera pardus)? This is not too hard, so I won’t give a reveal.  It was sent by reader Dorsa, who said it took her a while to find the beast.  This is, of course, what prey see—if their vision is nearly the same as ours.

Don’t look at the comments before you have a good search, as someone’s revealed the location.

Did you spot the Persian leopard in the tweet-picture below?

استار یعنی این …. می تونین پلنگ را بین صخره ها پیدا کنین ؟
Incredible camouflage of a Persian #leopard at #Tandoureh NE #Iran pic.twitter.com/zm6f8jrdL3

— msfarhadinia (@MSFarhadinia) January 20, 2018

Here it is!

(Note: the original title, which went out over email, was “spot the snow leopard,” but this is a regular leopard; see below.)

Here’s a tweet from Mohammad Farhadinia asking you to spot the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana; I had no idea that “African” leopards were in Asia, which shows how ignorant I am).  I’ll put a bigger picture below, and the answer will go up at noon Chicago time.

استار یعنی این …. می تونین پلنگ را بین صخره ها پیدا کنین ؟
Incredible camouflage of a Persian #leopard at #Tandoureh NE #Iran pic.twitter.com/zm6f8jrdL3

— msfarhadinia (@MSFarhadinia) January 20, 2018

Can you see it? (Click to enlarge.)  I would rate this one “medium difficulty”.

And, for your delectation, here’s the range map of the subspecies of Panthera pardus:

That wasn’t too hard, was it? I’ve circled the cat: