WILKINS ET AL. FLORIDA PANTHER MORPHOLOGY


 Appendix 3


 Live animals examined for kinked tail and whorl (1980-1990)'


Number Locality Whod Kink Comments


Yes Yes
R Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
R Yes/No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
No No
No No
R Yes
Yes Yes
R Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes No
No No

Yes No
Yes Yes

R No


Shot in foot
White Oak
parent of GFC #19
parent of GFC #19
mother of #16 & #21
modified kink3
"Jumbo"
"Jumbette"
Price cat
offspring of#14
offspring of#15
from #15 "Annie"
Whorl single ridge

Whorl single ridge




First to show no
 kink or whorl

First to show both
 kink and whorl


GFC #9
Big Guy
GFC #11
GFC #12
GFC #14
GFC #16
GFC #17
GFC #18
GFC #19
GFC #21
GFC #22
GFC #23
GFC #26
GFC #28
GFC #29
GFC #31
GFC #32
GFC #34
GFC #36
GFC #37

GFC #38
GFC #39

GFC #40

 Total


 Big Cypress
Total 17
Whorl absent 1(6%)
Rudimentary 4(23.5%)
Whorl present 12(70%)
No kink 4(23.5%)
Kink 13(76.5%)


 Everglades
Total 6
Whorl absent 4(66.6%)
Rudimentary 1(16.6%)
Whorl present 1(16.6%)
No kink 5(83.3%)
Kink 1(16.6%)


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Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Everglades
Everglades
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Everglades
Everglades
Everglades
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress
Big Cypress

Big Cypress
Everglades

Big Cypress


pture data fom IR Belden and M. RoelkeO Game and Flmida Game and Freshwater Commission
R=namentsy, approximately 5cm o less single ridge
mod kinkpresent at first capture, but absent at later capture. Kink ofa different shape (sideways) than those observed in Big Cypress
cats; no explanation, unless due to an injury informationn fnm D. Janzen M. Roelke pers. comm)