A diligent scholar is like a bee who takes honey from many different flowers and stores it in his hive.
—John Amos Comenius
A cow-puma hybrid (Bos taurus x Felis concolor) was reported in the Silver Cliff, Colorado, Rustler (Dec. 9, 1908, p. 1):
The Worlds Greatest Curiosity
Come and see this curiosity, this strange freak of nature resembling both a domestic calf and a wild mountain lion. This calf was born on the Geo. Cress ranch in Wet Mountain Valley, so you can see for yourself that this is not a fake but a real, born animal. If you want to see a Curiosity, a Monstrosity, a Lion-Calf, a Deformed Calf or a strange freak of nature resembling both a domestic calf and a wild mountain lion on exhibition, it is FREE at the Novelty Store, Silver Cliff, Colo.
We have been in the show business heretofore, been over a great part of this and other states and charged ten cents admission to see; this animal, but as this is a home product we are going to give our Custer County friends a free exhibition. Everybody is welcome to come to our store and see this freak. All we ask is for you to spend a dime or two with us. Store open all day and in the evening. Exhibition begins Monday, Dec. 14, and continues the balance of the month.
Siltcoos Lake, Ore. (UP)—A heifer calf with heavy, broad shoulders of a cougar and small ears pointing backward has been disowned by its mother here. The calf was born in the rain and left there, the mother refusing to nurse it. Its face is broad and flat, with three long sharp fangs in the front of the mouth and two on the left. It gives the impression of a cougar's head and shoulders mounted on a calf's body.
Other reports about such births appear in my book Telenothians (available here).