NEWSLINK: Welsh race named after cat sightings

Beastly attempt
This is South Wales
Bwystfil y Bryn (Beast of Bryn) race is an annual event in June which is named after a number of big cat sightings around the route. Organiser Graham Rowland said it would be "brilliant" if the route could be marked out. "I know of no other run that ...

It is interesting to see how mystery cat sightings in the UK are beginning to get a cultural significance..

NEWSLINK: More tiger troubles in India

Tigers captured from Heggadadevana Kote not a man-eater
Times of India
The nine-year-old tiger was captured a day after a tribal woman Mahadevamma (55) was killed in Bommalapura, on August 25, after she was allegedly attacked by a big cat while grazing cattle. DCF B S Gaonkar said jurisdiction ACF has given a report that ...

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Whilst researching, for my trip to Hartland Woods today I came across these interesting guides to animal tracks, now I know that some of them do not apply to the uk, but they may be of use to our other readers.

If you have any other footprint guides that may be of use to anyone who reads this blog feel free to send them to me and I will repost :)



NEWSLINK: Big cat on the prowl scares villagers

Imphal,September 12, 2012: With report of a pig being dragged away and eaten up by a wild animal believed to be a Tiger on the night of September 10, many of the scared villagers of Khordak Mayai Leikai under Bishnupur district have reportedly fled for safer places.

Informing this to Hueiyen Lanpao, one Haisnam Ibomcha, a villager of Khordak Mayai Leikai, said that a pig which was reared by one Heisnam Nganthoi, s/o H Mahindra of Khordak Mayai Leikai, was found eaten up by a wild animal on the night of September 10.The carcass of the pig which was around 20 kg in weight was found the next morning at a distance of about 20 feet from the pigsty.

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SIGHTINGS: More on the East Hamptons 'panther', USA

Mysterious Animal Tracks in East Hampton Probed
NBC New York
Sightings of a “panther-like animal” and a mysterious set of tracks just a mile and a half from East Hampton have local police and state wildlife agents on the hunt for a possible big game cat on Long Island. East Hampton Police were called to a farm ...




Also see:
http://mysterycats.blogspot.com/2012/09/sighting-big-cat-on-loose-in-ny-hamptons.html

SIGHTINGS: Australia, Dimboon

Delaney hunts Timboon big cat
Weekly Times Now
PAT Delaney has already taken some ribbing at school for telling everyone he's seen a big cat. "They think I'm mad," the 17-year-old laughed. Young Pat is not alone in the Western District for saying a big cat is no fable. It is alive and well in the ...
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SIGHTINGS: Nebraska - "a report of a bobcat or mountain lion"

No big cat found after woman says she saw one cross 11th Street
Kearney Hub
KEARNEY — Buffalo County deputy sheriffs responded to a report of a bobcat or mountain lion was seen in southwest Kearney this morning. About 8:45 a.m., a woman called the 911 communications center reporting she had seen what she believed was a ...

This news report from Nebraska is quite an interesting one. According to a list of the mammals of Nebraska prepared by The Mammal Society the following felids are found in the state:

Mountain lion, Felis concolor, extirpated, (Possible)

Lynx, Lynx lynx, uncommon, prefers boreal and montane forests, but disperse onto plains during high population irruptions

Bobcat, Lynx rufus, uncommon, statewide, most abundant in areas with broken terrain which provides cover

The note reading 'possible' suggests that this sighting is not the only one in recent times, although the fact that the description is so vague it could be either "a report of a bobcat or mountain lion" is not encouraging. It is also interesting that no-one speculated that it could have been a lynx...