NEWSLINK: Big cats prowling Welwyn Hatfield, Freedom of Information request reveals

Herts Police confirmed that between 2011 and 2016 there were 26 reports of big cats prowling in the wild.

The majority (11) were of a panther, with one informant, in 2011, saying that after seeing a sheep being eaten by a panther, they “ran all the way home and our dog was going crazy, barking and yelping”.

Of the 26 reported sightings, nine were classified as unknown species, but shared similar characteristics with callers telling the police the big cats were “very large” or the same size as a Labrador, brown or gingery in colour – and in one incident, just 20ft from the informant.

A farmer in the north Hatfield area informed the police of multiple sightings on their property of a panther.

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SIGHTING, UK: 'Cheetah' spotted in Barnet prompts police call

Of all the calls received by the Metropolitan Police this year, few will have been as perplexing as one reporting a cheetah roaming the streets of London.


Newly released records reveal that last January a worried member of the public dialed 999 after appearing to see one of the big cats prowling the borough of Barnet.

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NEWSLINK: Mysterious ‘beast’ believed to be roaming Scottish Highlands stripping all the flesh off sheep and eating them

A large “cat” with a taste for mutton is believed to be roaming the most remote parts of northern Scotland, stripping sheep from their skin and leaving no trace but bones and wool.

The mysterious beast's latest catch is a hefty and healthy ewe of about 50kg. Her wool was neatly peeled off her skin before it was eaten. The carcass was found less than 100 yards from a croft in Swordly at the weekend.

The ewe belonged to Susan Mackay, who is not the first crofter to fall victim of the unknown animal.

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NEWSLINK: Black panther sighting on Derbyshire border should be taken ‘very seriously’

A wildlife expert says the potential sighting of a black panther off the A38 should be taken "very seriously".


The animal was spotted by dad-of-three Matt Chambers who says he was driving back from work when he saw "the biggest cat I have seen in my life" in a field on the Derbyshire border between Egginton and Stretton.


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NEWSLINK: Andhra child adopts stray kittens that turn out to be leopards

For two days, a six-year-old tribal boy was busy playing with two cats he had found in the neighbourhood, totally unaware that they were big cats. He found the leopard cubs in the bushes near his house and brought them home, feeding them milk. His parents had no inkling the ‘kittens’ their son had ‘adopted’ were cubs, until the neighbours noticed the spots.


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PHOTOS: Photographing snow leopards in the Himalayas

The snow leopard is one of the most elusive creatures on the planet, living in one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Here Wildscreen Exchange and Arkive contributor Craig Jones shares with us his experience in tracking and photographing this mysterious and endangered big cat in the Himalayan mountains.

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VIDEO: Dogs chase away leopard from apartment complex

A pack of dogs chased a young leopard out of an apartment complex at Goregaon on Tuesday night. 

The feat was captured by a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera on the premises, the forest department said.

The incident took place at Girikunj Society at Dindoshi, Goregaon (East), which adjacent to Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). Several leopards have been seen in the area in recent months but local residents said this was the first time one entered their society.

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