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Here’s the latest sighting of a seemingly non-native felid, this time in Baja California. The routine helicopter search for it is conducted. The “traveling circus” explanation, naturally, pops up.

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Winged cats, bobcats in the suburbs, and a liger are showing up in various media. Photos.

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With reference to the multiple sightings of a “large cat” on Irish soil, after the search for the large felid failed, the official “Wipe” has now been put into place.

Read: Update: Belfast Lion »

The location of the sightings does not really surprise me, if you consider the source of the reports are a social felid.

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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 […]

Read: Mystery Cat DNA: It’s A Wild Puma »

Just in case the notice got lost in the post-blackout entries, please click here to find the video of the University of Maryland felid. It looks like neither like a savannah cat nor a cougar to me. The following is a freeze frame from the video. Quality is poor. I have not seen a YouTube […]

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Is there another unknown felid being seen on the University of Maryland campus? Should we question the quick identification being given to this cat? C & C Savannahs shows off one of its prize examples of the breed. Carol Streit/Callie Ingram Photo. According to the Sunday Washington Post article entitled, “Authorities Take Photos Of Elusive […]

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An African lion, female, directly above. Lioness on a road, by Dick & Monique Smit, Henk & Liz Egbers, S.A. An American panther, puma, cougar or mountain lion, gender unknown, directly above. Lioness on the road at Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Florida Panther on the Loop Road. Last night, July 31, 2008, at about […]

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The Campus Cougar Alert of July 31st has been followed by more details of the sightings, through comments at Cryptomundo and media information. It couldn’t have wandered here on its own. And even if it could, they don’t come here….First we want to find and identify it, then get the proper people to trap and […]

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND 20742-6011 301-405-3555 EMERGENCY / DIAL 911 http://www.umdps.umd.edu CAMPUS ALERT July 31, 2008 There have been several reliable sightings of an animal fitting the description of a cougar on the campus. The description of the sighted cat is: light tan and tawny brown, about 4 feet […]

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Round One: In the otter competitive battle between the forces of good and evil, the following is the clip from CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now,” for June 1, 2007, on Nessie, which was run in the final moments of her program. It was originally scheduled to be five minutes long. At the time, my author friend […]

Read: Coleman vs Nickell: Round Two for Champ Week »

WHAT: “Lions in Iowa” traveling exhibit grand opening and celebration. WHEN: 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26. WHERE: Swiss Valley Nature Center, 13606 Swiss Valley Road, Dubuque, Iowa. COST: The event is free and open to the public. Ron Andrews, Iowa’s foremost expert on mountain lions, will help celebrate the grand opening of the “Lions in […]

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Cryptozoology author Matt Bille, who found himself in the middle of a firestorm of “African lion” sightings in his hometown, was interviewed by the local media. On July 22, 2008, The Colorado Springs Gazette published an article about the Colorado Springs “lion.” In it they quoted Matt Bille. Or, should I say, misquoted him? Bille […]

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If you ever Plan to motor west Travel my way, take the highway that’s the best Get your kicks on Route 66 It winds from Chicago to LA More than two thousand miles all the way Baby, get your kicks on Route 66 Now you go through St. Louie Joplin, Missouri And Oklahoma City looks […]

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A helicopter and members of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and Colorado Division of Wildlife were among those searching for an African lion in eastern El Paso County on Monday. The search for the large cat was called off Monday afternoon. Was the large unknown animal seen in Colorado an African lion? Panthera atrox, […]

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