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Published: 2013-04-09 12:52:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 47425; Favourites: 764; Downloads: 0
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Because DA is lacking something like this :3Quick tutorial.
Because some people totally asked for it XD
This way I'll make it clear that the two big cats present in "Africa" are LEOPARDS and not cheetahs or jaguars.
Meanwhile, since LOTS of people get confused between these three cats, I wanted to help in any way that I could
For the comic of Africa, I researched all I could about leopards and how to draw them, and this included making them different from cheetahs and jaguars.
I thought I'd use what I've learned to help fellow Deviants telling these cats apart.
The drawings of leopard, cheetah and jaguar were made without any reference, but just based on the knowledge I had. I did use a reference for the exact colours though. I'm sorry about the jaguar's coat, I didn't have the exact gold tone ;;
I hope this helps anyone who needs it!
Things that I forgot to add/were suggested by other people:
*Cheetahs can purr continuously, unlike Jaguars and leopards
*The spots on melanistic leopards and jaguars are still visible from a particular angle and with particular amount of light: [link] [link] [link]
*There is another variant for the cheetah, called "Lesser spotted cheetah", in which the animal has few to almost no spots on a tawny background. [link] Extremely rare in nature.
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Oh, thank you some much for making this! Honestly, I just started to read all of your tutorials, and I have already learned quite a lot from them, including the comics you've made.
I am still a young artist, and out of all the information that there is on internet, so far I found your tutorials most helpful. Thank you for making these! ^^
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Most jaguars lived in the jungles and swamps, but they had the most uncommon habitats in South America, like pampas and the grasslands. Even they are rare in the deserts from Mexico to the south of USA, which the jaguar shares the roles with the pumas, black bears, and even wolves, but the jaguars are USA's rarest predators. We all know why jaguars are in 2nd place to have the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom, before the brown and grizzly bears, but after the spotted/laughing hyenas. Did you know that jaguars, like tigers, but unlike most felids, would love to swim, cool off in the water, and they can fish? And about the cheetahs, both them and the lions are among the social of the wild felids. Not all cheetahs are solitary, you know.
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I thought the snow leopard was the smallest cat in the genus panthera?
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I believe when I posted this it was still debated whether the snow leopard belonged in the genus Panthera or not.
Up until a couple years ago, it belonged in its own genus, Uncia
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Yes, I am aware of that. Even though I thought that it was know to be Panthera Uncia in 2013, when this was submitted?
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Hmm true, it could have been. I honestly don't remember why I wrote that, I may have looked up the species on an older book and written the wrong information
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Yes, I still see some books which claim that. But, no problem at all
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True, I actually went back and checked, and the book I used did classify the snow leopard as Uncia uncia still
I'll make sure to go back and change this info
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FINALLY SOMEBODY WHO GETS IT
Evene disney lost trach when they started " the lion gaurd"
Teaching little kids innaccurate cheetah print, tsk-tsk.
Fucking disney junior....
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I almost had an eyebleed looking at Fuli's leopard-like spots ;_;
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I know
like what the fuck disney
you got it right in the movies, but now your character design artist is suddenly 1 IQ point dumber?
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It's very clear that they made the Lion Guards to appeal to young kids who will then be begging their parents for Lion Guard figurines at Disney stores :/ And it's a shame because that show has potential :/
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Exactly.
Like, they're now claiming these characters to be this specific animal, then designing it innaccurately.
As much as I love Fuli,
Disney just went too far trying to make it appeal to kids.
They got it spot on in TLK movies, I'm talking PERFECTION. www.lionking.org/~s-tlk/old/pg…
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A great tutorial, and very interesting as well! Even if you know the difference between a leopard and jaguar, I still find it puzzeling sometimes which one it is when seeing a picture of one of them. If you see them together you tend to spot the differences immidiatly, but alas, you don't see them next to one another a lot. I do wonder why so many people confuse cheetahs and leopards though...Yes, they both have spots, but literally everything else is differant. People never seem to mix up snow leopards and clouded leopards though...Then again, people tend to remember white leopards (Even though snow leopards are actually a sister species of tigers, but you know what I mean.) and I haven't met a lot of people who know what a clouded leopard is XD The majority of people that do know clouded leopards know them and dholes from the game Far Cry 4, but don't know much about the actual animal itself.
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Thank you so much!
True, sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.
I think the presence of the spots is what confuses people the most
Clouded leopards are pretty rare cats, I'd guess there aren't many people who know about them
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Yup. Even if you know the difference, it can still be hard. In my language, we even have a special word for it. 'Boekenwijsheid'. Another example would be that between pine martens and stone martens, or weasels and stoats. Yes, there are differences. But if you don't see them next to each other or don't have quite enough time to look at them well, the difference is still hard to spot.
I think that's it, yeah. I've seen plenty of films, series etc where a cheetah or leopard appears, and its being called wrong. Of course, people who call them 'tigers' are a differant subject...One has stripes, the other has spots. Its not that difficult, or is that just me?
Yeah, I think that might be the case. They aren't really well known compared to some other big cats, such as lions and tigers.
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That's very true!
And that's right, the media doesn't help with that, either
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Leopards are classified as Apex Predators on wikipedia's "list of apex predators" - but it depends on the location because the feral cat is an apex predator in NZ, but in most other countries (like America) it's prey.
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I didn't know about that!
I was mainly thinking of African leopards (in Africa the apex predator is the lion), and Asian leopards (in Asia the apex predator is the tiger). But I think there are also subspecies of leopard that are segregated/separated from the local Asian fauna, and in their context they can be considered apex predators
Thanks for telling me!
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You can have more than one apex predator in an ecosystem, I believe. Because they are animals that are not preyed upon - not animals that won't attack one another.
According to wikipedia: those predators that are not preyed upon as healthy adults in the wild. Full scavengers (e.g. most vultures ), although they may not be preyed on either, are not counted as apex predators unless they at least partially depend on capturing live prey. Many species listed here are only apex predators within certain environments, e.g. coyotes are only apex predators when larger predators such as the gray wolf or the brown bear are absent.
You will note that red fox is on the list too, but that is likely in England, where the wolf is absent.
So I would say leopards are, because lions don't regularly hunt and eat leopards - the same way they don't regularly hunt and eat hyena. The three are in direct competition, and would likely attack one another if they met, but they don't form a significant part of the food chain.
I had to research it for my card game - which is all about building food chains.
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That's really interesting, I honestly didn't know
The definition of apex predator I had in my head was completely off XD Thank you for telling me and for all the links! I'll be sure to take a look at them and get informed better on this subject
And that's one cool-sounding card game you're making! 8D
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Thanks!
The Giant Otter is apparently an Apex Predator. But she is also very difficult to draw 
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That's true, otters are really hard to draw!
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In the Middle East, the leopards may rival against hyenas for being alpha predators, but they were rare in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, as even rarer than their subspecies in the arctic of Russia(However, the Amur leopards are not alpha predators).
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Oh that is interesting! I didn't know, cool^^
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I'm starting my own "project", learning to draw all the wild cats and this will be useful
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Oh sweet! Thank you! I hope it will 
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Oh thank you, you're so nice!
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Cats are killin' me. They seem to look like dogs most of the time (when I'm tryin' to draw them).
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Hyena are worse. Mine either look too feline or too canine...
Believe it or not, I have a similar problem with lemurs - they either look too fox or too cat.
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I believe it. And yeah, hyenas are also the big problem. Almost EVERYTHING (animal) I draw looks like dog.
(And I recently got to know, that I'm drawing coyotes not wolves. My all life was a lie! )
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Yeah, that's the hardest part ;_;
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What??? I was just agreeing to what you said... (Ow, just forger about it...)
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Haha no worries XD
Sorry, I used the wrong emoticon there XD I wanted to make a smile
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Is cool ^^ I love cheetahs,and know a lot of about they!And from your tutorial now I know more about they!!!
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Cheetahs also have hips and shoulders that are separate from the spine; they 'float'. That allows them to further increases their stride, on top of their already long limbs. I've been learning so many interesting things about felines during my studies on them
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Oho my, thank you for that additional info!
And you're right, cats have the most interesting info to them
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Now I want to draw wild cats
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Hey no worries^^
I hope this helps you
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