Pallas Cat (Otocolobus manul) — Wildlife Photo Style

# Pallas Cat (Otocolobus manul) — SDXL v1

A LoRA for generating photorealistic Pallas cats — a rare wild

felid native to Central Asia, frequently mis-rendered by base

models as tiger, snow leopard, or generic gray cat.

## Usage

- Trigger: pallas cat, Otocolobus manul

- Recommended weight: 0.7 – 0.9

- Best results: front-facing portraits, sitting poses,

natural wildlife photography contexts

- Known limitation: side-profile and dynamic poses can produce

"anatomical chimeras" (front-face on side-body) — see the v2

notes in the linked article. v2 will address this.

## Sample prompts

pallas cat, Otocolobus manul, sitting on rock, looking at camera,
soft natural daylight, wildlife photography, photorealistic

## Training details

- Base: SDXL 1.0

- Dataset: 92 photographs (zoo livestream,

photographer portfolios)

- Rank 8, Alpha 1, 10 epochs, AdamW8bit

- Captioning strategy: variable elements only — trigger word absorbs

permanent species features

## Full write-up

Three findings I noticed during this training run — including a

chimera failure mode that more epochs don't fix — are written up at:

[Part 2 LinkedIn Article link]

## Attribution

Full photographer credits: [GitHub ATTRIBUTION.md link]

## v2 coming

v2 with diversified pose data is in training. Will be published

under this same model.