From phma@oltronics.net Thu Jul 05 19:00:32 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 6 Jul 2001 02:00:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 64397 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2001 02:00:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jul 2001 02:00:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.105) by mta2 with SMTP; 6 Jul 2001 02:00:30 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id E2A9F3C5A6; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:00:23 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Taxonomy of Felidae Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:39:23 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0107052200210I.08024@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat There are variations in fineness at the genus level (http://www.primenet.com/~brendel/felidae.html is one of the finer schemes), but in general cats fall into three subfamilies: big cats, little cats, and cheetahs. It seems to me that the three words we have cover the family as follows: mlatu covers the little cats (note that the mountain lion is a little cat, despite being called lion), cinfo the big cats without markings, and tirxu the big cats with markings (including the panther, who has black spots on a black background) and the cheetah. I propose some more words for specific cats: ja'urtirxu [tirxu]: cheetah karkala [mlatu]: caracal pardali [mlatu, no p3 even though it has spots]: ocelot ma'armlatu [mlatu]: mountain lion diltirxu [tirxu]: clouded leopard pantera [tirxu]: leopard, panther (xekri pantera) phma