NEWSLINK: Mountain lions moving west

Mountain lions moving west, says study
Tahoe Daily Tribune
While California's human population has been moving elsewhere in recent years, the state's big cat population appears to be adding residents from Nevada. Mountain lions have been moving west from the Great Basin into the Sierra Nevada in contrast to ...

Study: Mountain lions are packing up and moving west The Bell Jar Nevada officials say that populations of mountain lions are healthy statewide because the big cats usually live in very remote areas which are often inaccessible to humans. The AP reports that Nevada is home to approximately 3,000 cougars while ...

SIGHTING (UK): Dog Walkers Unnerved By "Big Cat" Sightings In Bedford

Two dog walkers claim to have seen a “lion stalking” in a housing estate in Bedford.

Last Thursday a woman claimed to have seen the large “orange and brown” beast prowling only four feet away from her. The witness said that she knew it to be lion stalking as she had seen enough National Geographic programmes. She said that her dogs were shaking and that the animal, which was about four foot high looked her in the eye then ran off towards a pig farm. The woman refused to be named for fear of being mocked.
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TERATOLOGY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Maned lionesses explained

Weird & Wild: Rare Maned Lionesses Explained
National Geographic
... individual pictured below), where the lion population may carry a genetic disposition toward the phenomenon, according to Luke Hunter, president of the big-cat conservation group Panthera, which collaborates with National Geographic's Big Cats ...

This is a case which makes one think of the marozi or spotted lion case so beloved of some cryptozoologists

NEWSLINK: Conservation proposal for Pakistani snow leopards

Snow Leopards in Pakistan No Longer Wild, Expert Says
National Geographic
The snow leopard in Pakistan is an endangered species. The population of the rarely seen big cat has likely fallen to fewer than 450 in the country, mainly due to hunting. Now an expert has come up with an unconventional—and controversial—proposal to ...

SIGHTINGS (USA): Arizona mystery cat

Wildlife officials looking for big cat
Mohave Valley News
Wildlife officials looking for big cat. Neighbors convinced mountain lion is prowling in Fort Mohave. By RODD CAYTON/The Daily News. Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:27 AM MDT. FORT MOHAVE — A reported mountain lion sighting has state ...

NEWSLINK: Lioness adopts baby antelope

Lioness adopts baby antelope after killing its mother Metro The big cat took pity on the young fawn when it emerged shaking from its hideout in the long grass of Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. Minutes early the intimidating meat eater had chased down the youngster's mother, but showed her softer side ...

NEWSLINK: Mountain lion migration

Mountain Lions Migrating from Nevada Into California; Study Reveals French Tribune Researchers thought that since a big cat habitat is made available to lions in Nevada when they were killed by hunters, more of their population would migrate from west to east in Nevada to benefit the same. In general, in California, the lions are not ...