Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-66.87.121.173-20140728165336/@comment-4091815-20140728170550

No. In real life, the "Kanima" was described as "a werejaguar" but that's never been the case on the show.

The Kanima was a short circuit in the werewolf transformation in Jackson's case alone. While

While they may further define it later, as it stands now Kanima and Werejaguar are not the same in the Teen Wolf Universe.