For the same reason hoomans named the siamese cat
kinky taxonomy
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morto@piefed.social 1 day ago
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 day ago
That’s because swamp-ass cat was rejected.
Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because tgats the name of the region
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Because “pantanal” means “from the swamp” in at least Portuguese and, probably also Spanish, and these cats are probably native to swampy areas in South America?!