Alie Ward

Oh, okay.

To recap, cheetah, the common leopard, and the jaguar are all this orangish, sandy brown color.

Now, the cheetah lives in Africa.

It has long legs and solid spots.

The common leopard lives in Africa, Central Asia, India, and China and has solid black spots.

And the jaguar lives in Central and South America and has those open rosette-looking spots.

Now, a black panther isn't really a thing.

what?

They're either a common leopard or a jaguar, but are they not spotted?

Au contraire.

If you look closely at a black panther, hopefully from a photograph, you'll see the spots, kind of like a fancy fabric that's all the same color, but at an angle it has like a floral pattern.

I think it's called a brocade or a jacquard.

In terms of spots, we're not even going to touch on any of the small cats,

because this is not a micro-felinology episode either.

But I hope the mega-felinology spot information wins you a bet.

I hope it humiliates your adversaries.

I was going to say they need you as a consultant.

Because, yeah, if I see someone in a cat print, I always just think, oh, it's leopard print, like a leopard print mini skirt or something.

But it could very well be a mishmash of cheetah and leopard.

Well, let's talk about leopards versus snow leopards because you are a snow leopard scientist.