Did Mystery Mountain Lion Kill A Duck?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 15th, 2011
Authorities are stating on Friday, July 15, 2011, that more unconfirmed sightings of a mountain lion in northeast Ohio include a report that the animal killed a duck.
An Ohio Division of Wildlife officer was checking out the July 14th account from a Newcomerstown man that he saw a mountain lion attack a mallard in Tuscarawas County. The Repository newspaper in Canton, Ohio, reports the man said the cat appeared skinny and malnourished. Division spokeswoman Jamey Graham says officers were hoping wet ground might show tracks or other clues toward solving the mystery behind recent sightings in Tuscarawas and Stark counties. Graham says transportation workers in Tuscarawas County also reported seeing what they believed to be a mountain lion Thursday.
Numerous sightings were reported last week in Stark County, according to the Associated Press.
In a less than a surprising revelation, officials aren’t convinced the animal is a mountain lion.
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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Malnourished? When I hear that I actually do assume it was a pet that got loose. Either that or its quite ill/injured.
We have big cats at the zoo I work at, and people are always saying they look “skinny and malnourished,” when we purposely regulate their weight to a healthy level (a few pounds above their wild weight.) Big cats naturally look very trim and skinny.
I see them in the wild at least once a year, and it’s true, they always look like they are starved. Since they don’t have any in the area, the wildlife officer wouldn’t know this. Even ordinary domestic cats look unhealthily skinny, at least when people feed them right.