Only one in a thousand people are able to find the cat in this photo.
Quite a few of our “spot the cat” posts require eagle eyes, but today we’re cranking up the difficulty by orders of magnitude.
You might ask yourselves, “Is there really a kitty in this picture?” I’m stumped!
Find the cat yet? He’s clearly a ninja!
A photo shows why mountain lions are so elusive. Can you find the hidden puma?
This is the real deal, friends. Not a cheesy low-res photo or an intentionally obtuse shot with three pixels of a tail visible.
There’s a cat in this photo — a puma to be exact — and finding it is a good reminder of how awesome these elusive felids are, as well as how well they hide themselves from humans and fellow wildlife alike:
The photo comes courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Services and eagle-eyed photographer John Tull, who spotted the well-hidden cat in rural Washoe County, Nevada.
Mountain lions are the second-largest cats in the Americas behind jaguars, and although they look like lionesses, they pose little danger to humans. About 15 people have died in conflicts with mountain lions over the past 100 years. Dogs, by contrast, kill between 30 and 50 people a year.
Mountain lions are also known as pumas, cougars, catamounts and panthers, among other names. The word “panther” is a nonspecific word for large cats and is often used in association with jaguars and leopards.
Known scientifically as puma concolor, these mysterious cats are more closely related to small cats (felis) than big cats (panthera), and have the distinction of being the largest cats who can meow.
A sneaky feline lurks in this photo of an editor’s living room.
Today’s “Can you find the kitty?” comes to us courtesy of Kate Hinds, a cat servant and planning editor at WNYC public radio.
Hinds snapped a shot of her living room, showing a large bookshelf, a TV, lots and lots of books, plants, knick-knacks…and a sneaky little cat.
This one’s a bit more difficult than it looks. Can you locate the hiding kitteh?
Previously:
This one had me stumped.
There’s a kitty hidden somewhere in there, I promise.
Not an easy one to spot…
The last “Can You Spot the Cat?” we posted was pretty challenging, we thought, until a bunch of people said they saw the well-camouflaged kitty right away.
This one is a bit more difficult because the nature of the image throws off pattern recognition. Can you find the cat?
Still having difficulty?
Need a hint?
The cat you’re looking for is a tortoiseshell. If you still can’t find the hidden feline, click here to see the same image with the cat’s position circled.
h/t The Dodo
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