NEWSLINK: Big cat sightings expected to hit a high in January

Big cat sightings expected to hit a high in January This is Gloucestershire BIG cat sightings are expected to hit a high next month as prey becomes scarce when temperatures plummet. Gloucestershire big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge recorded 40 sightings in the county in 2012 – 14 of them in January. . on the run: A reader sent ... See all stories on this topic » This is Gloucestershire

NEWSLINK: The puzzling extinction of the sabre-tooth cat

The puzzling extinction of the sabre-tooth cat
TG Daily
A team of scientists led by Larisa DeSantis a palaeontologist at Vanderbilt University, analysed the teeth of the sabre-tooth cats and American mountain lions. They found that the big cats generally had plenty to eat and likely consumed animal ...

NEWSLINK: Tigers roar back: Good news for big cats in three key landscapes

Tigers roar back: Good news for big cats in three key landscapes
Phys.Org
WCS reports record numbers of tigers here and good news for these iconic big cats in India and Russia. Credit: WCS. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today significant progress for tigers in three key landscapes across the big cat's ...

NEWSLINK: 3 years later, big cats on prowl in Panna Reserve again

3 years later, big cats on prowl in Panna Reserve again
Indian Express
The Panna Tiger Reserve was frustrated in December 2009 when a male tiger brought from Pench went missing putting a question mark on the ambitious project to reintroduce the big cat. The park had lost all its tigers by January that year and the two ...

FEATURE LINK: Cats of the Magical and Mysterious Kind

Beyond any shadow of a doubt, one of the leading seekers of strange creatures in the world today is Dr. Karl Shuker, who hails only a couple of miles from where I grew up in central England. But, Karl is not only a fine cryptozoologist. He’s an excellent author, too. And, right now, he has a new book out (yep, just in time for Christmas!) that should be of keen interest to anyone and everyone with an interest in strange creatures, folklore, magical tales, and Forteana. Its title: Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery.

Gathered together for the very first time, and between the covers of one single volume, are countless stories that will astound and intrigue you. Indeed, be prepared to be thoroughly amazed, and totally captivated, by a spellbinding array of truly extraordinary, exceptional cats of every imaginable – and even unimaginable – variety. And it’s Britain’s CFZ Press – the publishing arm of Jonathan Downes’ Center for Fortean Zoology - that we have to thank for publishing Karl’s book.

Surveying an eclectic spectrum of feline anomalies existing both within and far beyond the perimeters of cryptozoology, here are homing cats and demon cats, king cheetahs and woolly cheetahs, ligers and leopons, winged cats and horned cats, belligerent nundas and evanescent marozis, the mythology of the tailless Manx cat, the origins of Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, and latter-day sabre-tooths and feline deities from around the world.

Read on...

NEWSLINK: Rajasthan: Big cats fight, tigress found dead in Ranthambhore

Rajasthan: Big cats fight, tigress found dead in Ranthambhore
Daily Bhaskar
Jaipur: A tigress, missing for the past few days, was found dead on Sunday in Ranthambore forest area in Rajasthan's Sawaimadhopur district. The death of the tigress appeared to be the fallout of a territorial fight between two big cats, SP ...

AUSTRALIAN SIGHTINGS: Big cat recorded on video

Big cat recorded on video
Northern Star
Shaun Britz believes he saw what appeared to be a panther while driving along Shipwrecks Rd, near Nimbin Rocks. Marc Stapelberg. VIDEO footage of two separate sightings of a large feline at a property within 50km from Lismore will be sent to the ...

SIGHTINGS UK: Another lynx

Big cat seen !!!! Lynx ???, page 1 Big cat seen !!!! Lynx ???, page. privacy. Pages: ATS Members have flagged this thread 2 times. Topic started on 16-12-2012 @ 01:36 PM by rikgrimsby ... www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread908496/pg

SIGHTINGS USA: Another Arizona jaguar etc

1. Latest "Big Cat" News...Jaguar This Time!A confirmed Jaguar sighting south of Tucson, Arizona was made this week. This is about the 3rd or 4th confirmed sighting in the past 3-4 years in the south ...

   Latest "Big Cat" News...Jaguar This Time!

   A confirmed Jaguar sighting south of Tucson, Arizona was made this week. This is about the 3rd or 4th confirmed sighting in the past 3-4 years in the south Arizona area. These cats are coming out of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico just south of Arizona-New Mexico. Interesting to me....the last confirmed Jaguar killed in the USA was shot close to my wife's farm in Olmito, Texas in the mid-1940's. (Minor correction! The Arizona Game Commission "accidently" killed one a couple of years ago with a "Capture Gun" using a hypodermic needle projectile.)
   
   Another Panther confirmed by photos reported in Minnesota this week. This one in the Alexandria-St. Cloud area. I've spent a little time poking around in the International Falls-Duluth-Boundary Waters region, and if there was ever a place where panthers ought to be, this is it! I'm attracted to Duluth for some wild weird reason...LOVE that area!
   
   Rhode Island Game Commission finally, after almost 2 years of silence, issued a confirmed sighting report a week ago. The R.I. cat could have been out of the Quebec, Canada population which is also increasing. Though it may have been the same Cat reported in Conn. about this time which was a Black Hills Cat from S.D.
   
   Info like this probably doesn't interest many of our Board Members, but if your background is in forestry and wildlife management, it sure the heck does!
   
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NEWSLINK: Cameras at Katarniaghat capture seven big cats

Cameras at Katarniaghat capture seven big cats
Times of India
BAHRAICH: Almost a week into Phase-IV of monitoring big cats in the reserve, seven new tigers have been sighted in forest ranges in Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary and Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. As many as 168 pairs of camera traps have been put up and ...

SIGHTINGS UK: Dog-walkers spot "big cat's green eyes" in park

Dog-walkers spot "big cat's green eyes" in park
This is Gloucestershire
He reported the sighting to Gloucester big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge, who told The Citizen last week of a suspected sighting of a big cat in the Chalford Valley. "If it was a big cat, it would have been just tracking the dogs, to make sure they didn ...

AUSTRALIAN SIGHTINGS: 'Big Cat' legend gets boost with driver night sighting

'Big Cat' legend gets boost with driver night sighting
Northern Star
Shaun Britz is on the lookout after a close encounter with a big cat near Nimbin Rocks a few nights ago. THE mystery of the Nimbin Big Cat has surfaced again, with another sighting. Shaun Britz, of Nimbin, was driving along Shipwrecks Rd near Nimbin ......

UK SIGHTINGS: Fisherman comes face-to-face with 'Lynx' big cat in Stallingborough

Fisherman comes face-to-face with 'Lynx' big cat in Stallingborough This is Grimsby A FISHERMAN floundered for a weapon to protect himself after coming face-to-face in the dark with what he believed to be a lynx. Phil Beach was fishing near Laporte Road, in Stallingborough, when he saw a "huge cat" – measuring three foot long and two ... See all stories on this topic » Fisherman comes face-to-face with 'Lynx' big cat in ... - This is Grimsby By Grimsby Telegraph A FISHERMAN floundered for a weapon to protect himself after coming face-to-face in the dark with what he believed to be a lynx.Phil Beach was fishing near Laporte Road, in Stallingborough, when he...

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FEATURE LINK: Big Cats in Crisis as Populations Decline | Sci-Tech Today

Big Cats in Crisis as Populations Decline | Sci-Tech Today
A conservation group is hoping against hope to save the snow leopard, one of several big cat species in dramatic decline. There are only 100 to 200 snow ...

FEATURE LINK: Lair of the Beasts: Britain's Big Cats

Lair of the Beasts: Britain's Big Cats
Mania
For decades, people all across the United Kingdom - from the cold northern realms of Scotland to the southern-most borders of England – have reported sightings of large cats, very often the size of mountain-lions and equally often completely black in ...

SIGHTINGS UK: Big cat in Angus

Big cat on the loose?
Montrose Review
I was just concerned and thought that other dog walkers should know about it.” There has been a number of similar reports over the years of big cats being spotted in the area although local police this week said there have been no recent reported ...

SIGHTINGS UK: Two big cats spotted by cyclist

Two big cats spotted by cyclist Royston Crow They had left big paw prints in the snow. “I've looked on the internet and I think they looked like black leopards. The thing which concerned me is that it was a pair of them, it was quite scary.” Big cat sightings have been common in Crow country in ...

NEWSLINK: Curiosity nearly costs big cat his life at zoo

Curiosity nearly costs big cat his life at zoo
Daily Pioneer
Zoo keepers at the National Zoological Park had a tough time on Tuesday in saving the male white tiger from a furious attack from one of the females. The tiger and the tigress are kept in separate cages which are placed adjacent to each other. When the ...

NEWSLINK: Tiger attacked, killed by other big cat at Va zoo - Richmond Times ...

Tiger attacked, killed by other big cat at Va zoo - Richmond Times ...
A white Bengal tiger is dead after being attacked by another tiger at a suburban Richmond zoo.

NEWSLINK: Forest officials on the trail of big cat in SGNP

Forest officials on the trail of big cat in SGNP
Times of India
Earlier, two children and a woman were also attacked and killed by a big cat in separate incidents. Forest officials said the leopard who attacked the Bhandup security guard, Anthony Fernandes, would come out again in search of prey. "A cage has be put.

FEATURELINK: Tracking the elusive snow leopard

Tracking the elusive snow leopard
NBCNews.com
National Geographic kicks off its third annual Big Cat Week with a special about the snow leopard, the elusive and endangered cat that lives high in the snow-covered mountains of central Asia. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports and big cat tracker Boone ...

FEATURELINK: Big cat wrangler

Big Cat Week
WISH
Boone Smith is a big cat wrangler who has spent 20 years catching a total of nearly 500 cougars and pumas in Chile, California, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Colorado and collaring or marking more than 150 of them. A fourth-generation tracker and ...

VIDEO: Rufus the Baby Bobcat Kitten - Big Cat Rescue

Rufus the Baby Bobcat Kitten - Big Cat Rescue He was taken in by Big Cat Rescue on Feb 12th 2012, he's now eating solids on his own and ... bigcatrescue.org/rufus/

NEWSLINK: Big cat crisis: lion populations dwindling in Africa

Big cat crisis: lion populations dwindling in Africa
By Mihai Andrei
If things continue to move in this direction, a few decades from now, we will be living in a world with only a handful of tigers: just over 3000 tigers rem.

FEATURELINK: Big Cats - A Feline Fake or Cat Conundrum?

Big Cats - A Feline Fake or Cat Conundrum?
Consett Magazine
One of the most majestic groups of creatures in the world, big cats have inspired speculation and wonder around the world. From the Lion of Africa and the Bengal Tiger from Asia, big cats are powerful and dangerous but are not generally found in the UK.

NEWSLINK: Tracking the Elusive Snow Leopard of Afghanistan

Tracking the Elusive Snow Leopard of Afghanistan
ABC News (blog)
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and USAID challenged Smith, a fourth-generation big-cat trapper from Idaho, to capture and collar a snow leopard in Afghanistan in just 20 days. “They're borderline mythical, legendary,” Smith said. “If you can't ...

NEWSLINK: Rare cat filmed up close in Borneo

Rare cat filmed up close in Borneo
BBC News
They are not true leopards, being more distantly related to leopards, snow leopards, lions and tigers than those big cats are to each other. For many years, experts thought there was a single species of clouded leopard. Then in 2007, Mr Andreas Wilting ...

SIGHTINGS UK: Big cat is back in Gloucestershire believes tracker Frank Tunbridge

Big cat is back in Gloucestershire believes tracker Frank Tunbridge This is Gloucestershire THE big cat prowling the Five Valleys is back, believes tracker Frank Tunbridge, after it jumped out of a tree and frightened a woman who's seen it twice before. The startled woman came face-to-face with the black, puma-like creature in the Golden ...

NEWSLINK: Who killed Macho B?

A snare is not complicated -- just a thin wire with a noose that, when triggered, closes over an animal's leg. The device in question was anchored to a mesquite tree near Peñasco Canyon in the remote Atascosa Mountains, about 20 miles west of Nogales and just north of the Mexican border. Trail cameras designed to monitor wildlife had recently taken photographs of a male jaguar in the area, and researchers found a likely footprint from one of the rare spotted cats.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/12/09/20121209who-killed-macho-b.html#ixzz2EYjdnLNF

NEWSLINK: Oncilla caught on camera trap

Extremely Rare, Mysterious Cat Caught On Film By Camera Trap ...
An extremely rare cat, the oncilla, has been spotted at the Madidi National Park in Bolivia.

NEWSLINK: Tiger shot dead for killing livestock

Tiger shot dead for killing livestock
Daily Pioneer
The officials claimed after two tranquiliser darts failed to immobilise the big cat, it was shot dead on the presumption that “it could turn violent.” “The intention was to save it… We tried our level best,” said a senior Forest Department official ...

SIGHTINGS USA: California bobcat

Bobcat spotted in Northeast Fresno ABC30.com They spotted the big cat on their fence in the Cedar and Nees area Wednesday evening. The home is near Maple Creek Elementary. No word on where the bobcat went after leaving their backyard. But fish and game officials say bobcat sightings in that area ...

SIGHTING INDIA: Unexpected tiger sightings delight Dudhwa Reserve

Unexpected tiger sightings delight Dudhwa Reserve
Daily Pioneer
“The best part is that these big cats have been camera trapped in the Motipur and Kharkhara Ranges which fall in the buffer zones of the Reserve from where tiger presence was least expected,” he said. It also highlights the potentiality of such new areas.

USA SIGHTING: Illinois

Highland Park Warns of Possible Cougar Sighting
NBC Chicago
The big cats aren't fond of humans and are wide-ranging animals. Wildlife experts say it wouldn't be unusual for an adult male to travel up to 15 miles in a single day. Phil Rogers reports. Highland Park Warns of Possible... 

NEWSLINK: Part of BBNP remains closed after mountain lion attacks hiker

Part of BBNP remains closed after mountain lion attacks hiker
Bigbendnow
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK – A remote area of Big Bend National Park remains closed following a mountain lion attack on a hiker last Friday. Andrea Pinero Cebrian was attacked by the wild cat while hiking with her traveling companions in an area known ...

NEWSLINK: Experts to help catch on-the-prowl leopard

Experts to help catch on-the-prowl leopard
Times of India
LUDHIANA: Suspecting a leopard on the prowl in Qadian village forest area, the forest department has roped in two experts to help it catch the big cat. The experts have conducted extensive studies on leopards in Uttrakhand. The big cat had escaped from ...

NEWSLINK: Poor upkeep takes toll on big cat population

Poor upkeep takes toll on big cat population
Times of India
BOKARO: At a time when animal lovers of the country are running roaring campaigns to save the big cats of the jungle, the death of a six-month-old cub at Jawaharlal Nehru Biological Park, commonly known as Bokaro zoo, has once again exposed the zoo ...

SIGHTINGS UK: Ulster big cat

Second sighting of 'big cat' prowling Tyrone The Ulster Herald The story was first reported in Thursday's Ulster Herald which detailed the first sighting in the Cookstown Road area outside Omagh. When this story appeared another man came forward to say he saw an animal of the same description a couple of weeks ... See all stories on this topic »

NEWSLINK: White tiger news

Vandalur's big cats have ears for this man
The Hindu
Nine-year-old Anu, the oldest white tigress at Vandalur zoo, tenses and perks her ears when she hears approaching footsteps. Nobody dares to cross the big cat's path as it's barely days since she delivered two female cubs at the zoo. But when caretaker K.
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