Ologies with Alie Ward · 2026-03-25 · 85 min · 15,871 words

Megafelinology (SNOW LEOPARDS + OTHER BIG CATS) with Imogene Cancellare

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Oh hey, it's that chair you broke. That was not your fault. Ali Ward, this is ology's, this is mega philonology, it's big cats. So you learned way back in our philonology episode about house cats, which we're gonna link in the show notes that philonology comes from the Latin philonus for cats. Mega means huge.

but in Greek. So this word is a mishmash, but it's big wild kitties. It includes tigers, panthers, jaguars, common leopards, cheetahs. We also talk about bobcats and cougars, snow leopards. Some of those are the same and we'll explain how that works, as well as take you to some remote mountain ranges and sunlit meadows to spy on elusive species that if

They could would probably knock stuff off of huge bookshelves. Big cats, big deal. But first, thank you to patrons who support the show for one hot dollar or more every month and who submit questions via patreon.com slash ologies. You two can ask the Ollogist questions before we record, thanks to everyone in Oliogies merch. from ology smirch dot com, totes, hats, all of those things.

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