Humans have introduced animals from many areas in the world into ecosystems where they do not belong—think of the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco as an example. For Ben Lilly, of Halifax in the north of England, to spot what seemed to be a leopard body in the middle of a road was certainly an unusual sight.
“I saw something in the distance as I was coming round the bend and slowed down, giving it a wide berth in case it was an injured animal,” Lilly said, per the Daily Mail,
When he got closer, the driver was sure he saw the spotted fur of a big cat. “I got out cautiously, because I didn’t want something taking my face off,” Lilly said, “but as soon as I looked at it from the other angle I started laughing.”
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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