Because “pantanal” means “from the swamp” in at least Portuguese and, probably also Spanish, and these cats are probably native to swampy areas in South America?!
kinky taxonomy
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
morto@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
For the same reason hoomans named the siamese cat
Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because tgats the name of the region
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what a dumb meme
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
That’s because swamp-ass cat was rejected.