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.

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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 ...