pumapard facts

pumapard facts by Eternal_Knight 2011/11/14 12:16
In the nineteenth century, Carl Hagenbeck crossbred these wildcats to create their hybrid cousin. The young was nursed by a Fox Terrier in Hagenbeck Tierpark, Hamburg, as it was commonplace to use dogs to foster other animals. Unfortunately for the baby, itfailed to survive. Their deaths, however, did not prevent Hagenbeck from continuing his quest to interbreed these animals.
He bred several. Sometimes the male parent was a leopard and the female parent was a puma. Sometimes he used reverse pairing. The animals had tawny, sandy, or gray-brown coats. Their legs were short beneath their long puma-likebodies. Their spots were called rosettes. And they didn't grow very big. In fact they were referred to as dwarfs as they grew to be only half their parents' sizes.

Diet: Carnivorous
Description: Usually affectedby dwarfism and reaching half the size of the parents. Buffish base colour with faded spotting or rosettes. Pale underbelly, throat, mouth and cheeks. Belly andchest also spotted. Long Puma-like tail.
The colour can vary in this hybrid from buff to brown togrey
Facts: Pumapards are the hybridisation of Pumas and Leopards . The name is the same no matter who sired the offspring. Although being a mixture of both parents, the offspring tend to suffer from dwarfism
The Pumapard can only existin captivity as its parents belong to different continents.