the sire. Numerous lepjags have been bred as animal actors, as they are more tractable than jaguars.

The 19th century zoologist A.D. Bartlett stated: "I have, more than once, met with instances of the male jaguar (P. onca) breeding with a female leopard (P. pardus). These hybrids were also reared recently in Wombell's well-known travelling collection. I have seen some animals of this kind bred, between a male black jaguar and a female Indian leopard:-the young partook strongly of the male,