August 10, 2008
Mystery Cat DNA: It’s A Wild Puma
Kansas mountain lions are reported as frequently as most other mystery cats seen around the Midwest, of course. Most officials still say these are due to misidentifications.
Now there’s proof that one of those sightings was not of a mistaken house cat.
Last spring 2008, a
…Barber County man was chopping wood when he saw the animal in the grass. He retrieved a firearm from his truck and shot it.
KDWP obtained the pelt in March. Biologists collected muscle tissue samples and sent them to a federal research laboratory in Montana.
After several months of tests, researchers were able to determine the animal was not of the South American decent, from which most captive lines come.
While the test doesn’t prove the animal was wild, Peek said officials believe it probably was wild.
Click here for an interesting mountain lion graphic of the sightings plotted on a good map of the USA, broken down thusly:
Sightings
Class 1 confirmation
Live, captured animal
Body of a dead animal
Photograph or video
DNA evidence
Class 2 confirmation
Track sets, prey carcasses and
other physical evidence verified
by a qualified professional
Read more here.
About Loren Coleman
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.
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