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At 7:50 a.m. on Tuesday, he worked a half mile in 48.40 seconds under the exercise rider Dimitrios Dimitropoulos on Sagamore’s tapeta training track.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2011

The lynx's pupils were wide open, and the golden-yellow tapeta in the backs of her eyeballs were glowing like incandescent lamps.

From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by Hulbert, William Davenport