Puma concolor, also known as Puma, Cougar and Mountain Lion. It's one of the few charismatic megafauna that I've had to draw. In illustrating this mammal atlas, I've come to appreciate the plethora of uncharismatic minifauna out there. Many of them are bats and rodents.

Now that I'm almost done with mammal skull illustrations, I'm wondering what to do with all the original drawings. It seems a waste for them to sit in an unceremonious pile on my shelf. The actual book only needs digital scans for publication. I could give some to select friends, maybe auction them off (I imagine all the whale skulls would be sold first). Some of my early drawings look so amateur to me that I wouldn't want anyone to see the originals (they have since been altered in photoshop, to be less ugly).