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Ancient hillside etching of a cat. Nazca-Pampa region, Peru. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/historyporn@lemmy.world
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Excerpt: Enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert in Peru. Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a human, the newly revealed form of the feline is about 37-meter-long, and expected to be dating back more than 2,000 years.

Edit: Updated source with higher quality photo. OP picture replaced with this photo.

Old photo source

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[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

It looks like it started as a massive dick and balls on the left, then they were busted by their mums so they hastily changed plans to make it a cat instead.

[-] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

The original cat meme

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Any vague shape is still accurate for a cat.

[-] Twinkletoes@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Looks like a kangaroo

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think that's a fox, or maybe the, now extinct, spectacled big snouted cat. /s

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a pampas cat, per PBS.

Pampas cat wiki page.

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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