In late November, a trail camera caught sight of a cougar in Humphreys County, Tennessee, 70 miles west of Nashville. There have been other big-cat sightings in West and Middle Tennessee this year that the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has verified, as well. TWRA spokesman Don King says that a cougar “[had] not been confirmed by state authorities in Tennessee in perhaps 100 years” until these recent reports. Speculation about Tennessee mountain lions has been a source of myth and lore in the region for about as long.
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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
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
UK SIGHTING: Dursley man reports seeing big cats
A Dursley man has seen what he believed to be a pair of big cats hunting on the outskirts of the town.
The man was cycling to work in a morning roughly a month ago when he witnessed the pair apparently hunting a domestic cat.
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The man was cycling to work in a morning roughly a month ago when he witnessed the pair apparently hunting a domestic cat.
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NEWSLINK: Big cat prowls close to village and kills bull
A quiet morning with welcome sunshine turned out to be a busy and tense day for Karanaipuducherry near Vandalur as a leopard ventured very close to the village. The big cat killed a bull and fled back into the forest when villagers gathered in huge numbers, though it initially it acted a little aggressive.
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Monday, 21 December 2015
UK SIGHTING: Is big cat behind sheep kills?
Could a big cat be behind savage sheep kills in fields north of Gloucester?
Farmers in and around the Norton area said they had heard of several sheep being killed in the last few weeks at The Leigh.
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Farmers in and around the Norton area said they had heard of several sheep being killed in the last few weeks at The Leigh.
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NEWSLINK: Lion cub dies after poisoning and attack
A famous lion cub featured on a BBC wildlife documentary has died after being poisoned and injured by a buffalo.
The male lion, called Alan, had to be put down by vets in Kenya on Wednesday.
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The male lion, called Alan, had to be put down by vets in Kenya on Wednesday.
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NEWSLINK: Poisoned lions back on the prowl
Eight lions from the famous Marsh Pride in Kenya’s Masai Mara reserve have recovered from an attack of poisoning – and are roaming the savannah once more.
Yesterday they were well enough to be hunting again and were feeding on a buffalo they had killed.
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Yesterday they were well enough to be hunting again and were feeding on a buffalo they had killed.
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Sunday, 13 December 2015
VIDEO: Tiger makes friends with its meal
When Timur the goat was put inside Amur the tiger's pen at Russia's Far Eastern Safari Park, it was with the expectation that Amur was going to be having himself some dinner. But that's not what happened.
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