Caracal's finds

Thank you Taylor I understand better the scale and short tail!

Onza exist, I found one!..


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 .. on a flea-market, last sunday. As soon as I saw him , he made me think to a Nayab cheeta I already have:


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 .. but the mold is different:


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  Because of their resemblance I think this onza is from Nayab too.

  Why onza? I suppose Nayab used a cheeta mold to obtain a puma an so created a cheeta-like puma. This cat, for a long time regarded as a criptid, lives in mexican state of Sinaola. He was known by some skulls and was considered as a puma separated species til one was shot in 1986 whose genetic analysis proved he just was a slender and fast runner puma sub-species.

 here the youg female killed in 1986:

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 .. and released in Sinaola wide spaces:


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Nice photos again.

Great discovery in the Languedocian Sinaola

Those multiple sets we find on Nayab official website, they show colored figures naturally but all of them are just color references. Since Nayab produces to other brands, these molds are offered in several different colors. Namely their felines since most show similar shapes. An interesting example is the "Realistic" tiger which was already used for a leopard. It is even more common among those small figures an they are so many that it is hard to track them all. So, I believe you're right and a cheetah mold was used for a puma. We don't have all Nayab listed on TAW and the only puma there is again the one from the "Realistic" series. So, I suppose the other feline figures are used for pumas whenever a custommer asks for one. Sometimes some of the figures are quite ambiguous and what seems to be just lack of talent to capture the essence of an animal, it is more a way to turn the mold more versatile.
About the word onza, Latin Americans use it to several felines, namely jaguarundis, pumas and jaguars. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see this figure as the obscure onza.

Many thanks to you three Fernando, Christophe and Rogério!

Cool figure and backstory as well :)

Thank you Jill!

Thank you Andreas!

The Exmoor mysterious big black cat exits, I found one!..


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 .. on a flea-market last sunday!

 Would it be a sheeta melanistic form?.. or a sheeta-like melanistic lion as could indicate its short mane and tip tail tuft?


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 here with the now well known forest melanistic lion:


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  No doubt further researchs will bring us some answers!

Interesting find!!I have a book on the Beast of Exmoor!!!

how interesting and a rather strange unusual model.

You have been lucky Alain in the wild cat department at the flea markets keep it up!!

Taos wrote:

Interesting find!!I have a book on the Beast of Exmoor!!!

 Thank you Taylor! I have a book too, whose title is: "Mystery cats of the world" by Karl P.N. Shuker (HALE ed.)

sunny wrote:

how interesting and a rather strange unusual model.

You have been lucky Alain in the wild cat department at the flea markets keep it up!!

 Thank you Annette, I 'll try!

Interesting figures

I also have the Mystery cats of the world-its a wonderful book!

It seems there is a Cryptozoology wave on the Languedoc flea markets

Very strange black guy Alain

widukind wrote:

Interesting figures

 Thank you Andreas!

Kikimalou wrote:

It seems there is a Cryptozoology wave on the Languedoc flea markets

Very strange black guy Alain

    It seems!

With a brush at the tip of the tail it was supposed to be a lioness but it doesn't look like a lioness at all. The shape is closer to a cheetah but the tuft of the tail is bushy, not brushy. The head might look like a cheetah too but the facial elements not. It is Bagghera.

Very interesting model!

Roger wrote:

With a brush at the tip of the tail it was supposed to be a lioness but it doesn't look like a lioness at all. The shape is closer to a cheetah but the tuft of the tail is bushy, not brushy. The head might look like a cheetah too but the facial elements not. It is Bagghera.

 yes a melanistic sheeta looking but a bushy tail tuft , little mane around the neck and sharp ears.. when I saw him I immediatly thought to mysterious Exmour big black cat supposed to be an escaped puma or black panther or.. a still unidentified species!..

 As you explained so well upper, a same chinese production can be painted in different pattern and colours to get species. But even if the first intention was a lion or a lioness, the result was rather strange!

Joliezac wrote:

Very interesting model!

 Thank you Jolie!

On the same flea market I completed my Chap Meï range:



 a second stripped hyaena:

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 and the warthog:


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 and my Chap Meï range now:


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 Christophe is perfectly right, there is a cryptozoologic wave on Languedoc by these times!

 .. and to continue..

 I think I found on the same flea market last sunday, the original type of this mysterious canid I customized on Dire Wolf some years ago:


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 It is the one on top left, in a rubber plastic. He received a rather good painting and we can distinguish fans in his low jaw.


 Maybe could we open a cryptids section on SUY!