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Reports of big not-native feline sightings in Uk

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In British folklore, British large cats, besides referred to as ABCs (Conflicting, or Anomalous, Big Cats), phantom cats and mystery cats, feature in reported sightings of large felids in the British countryside. These creatures have been described as "panthers", "pumas" or "black cats".

The being of a population of "true big cats" in Britain, particularly a convenance population, is rejected by experts owing to lack of disarming testify for the presence of these animals, which require huge amounts of food. At that place take been some incidents of recovered private animals, often medium-sized species such every bit the Eurasian lynx, but in one 1980 instance a puma was captured live in Scotland.^[1] These are generally believed to accept been escaped or released exotic pets that had been held illegally, possibly released after the animals became too hard to manage or after the introduction of the Unsafe Wild fauna Act 1976.^{[2] [iii]} Sightings at a distance may be explicable as domestic cats seen near to a viewer beingness misinterpreted as larger animals seen farther away.^{[4] [five] [6]}

A fringe theory suggests that the animals may be surviving Ice Age fauna^[3] where leopards, scimitar-toothed cats, lions, and lynxs had been found in British Isles. In his 2013 volume Feral, George Monbiot argues that humans are programmed to detect things that might be large cats because of the threat they posed in prehistoric times.

Reported sightings [edit]

Documentation [edit]

The research group Large Cats in Great britain publishes reported sightings annually by county. The "top ten" counties or regions of Britain between Apr 2004 and July 2005 were:^[vii]

Region	Devon	Yorkshire	Scotland	Wales	Gloucestershire	Sussex	Cornwall	Kent	Somerset	Leicestershire
Number of sightings	676	127	125	123	104	103	99	92	91	89

Offset sightings [edit]

William Cobbett recalled in his Rural Rides how, as a boy in the 1760s, he had seen a true cat "every bit large equally a middle-sized Spaniel dog" climb into a hollow elm tree in the grounds of the ruined Waverley Abbey virtually Farnham in Surrey. Later, in New Brunswick, he saw a "lucifee" (North American lynx – Felis lynx canadensis) "and information technology seemed to me to exist just such a cat as I had seen at Waverley."^[8] Another report appeared in the Daily Express on xiv Jan 1927 of a "lynx" being seen.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The New Forest folktale of the Stratford Lyon tells of how John de Stratford pulled a behemothic, ruby, antlered lion from the basis at Southward Baddesley in the New Forest in the year 1400. The story is first recorded in the marginalia of an 18th-century bible. In the tardily 20th century sightings of the lion were recorded in the vicinity of the Cherry Panthera leo Pub, Boldre.^{[ix] [ page needed ]}

Further dorsum there is a medieval Welsh verse form Pa Gwr in the Black Book of Carmarthen which mentions a Cath Palug, meaning "Palug's cat" or "clawing true cat", which roamed Anglesey until slain by Cei. In the Welsh Triads, it was the offspring of the monstrous sow Henwen.^[ten]

Recent sightings [edit]

The mod wave of big cat reports stems from the tardily 1950s, with regular news stories of the Surrey puma, detailed beneath, and the "fen tiger".

1959

Surrey: The get-go possible sightings were recorded in 1959, when police received a number of reports of big cats in the Farnham area, near the Surrey/Hampshire border.^{[amend source needed]}

1962 and 1963

Hampshire, Surrey and Greater London: Two further sightings were recorded, in 1962, by water board personnel in Hampshire,^[vague] and a third in the winter of 1962–1963, of a "cat-like beast" seen at Bushylease Farm, Crondall, Hampshire.^{[11] [better source needed]} When a constabulary officeholder sighted the supposed Shooter's Colina cheetah in southward-east London in 1963, media interest turned to other big cat sightings.^[xi]

1964

Surrey: In August 1964, a bullock at Bushylease Farm was establish severely lacerated. Following press coverage, numerous reports of contact with the animate being, dubbed the "Surrey puma", came to the press, ranging from the fanciful to some taken seriously past the police.^[12] A plaster bandage of a paw print measuring five inches (13 cm) beyond was handed into Godalming Police force Station in Surrey, who had an agile file on "big cats" that were harming livestock. The manus print was publicly displayed. Reports noted that its size implied an extremely large specimen and that there were distinct differences between it and the alleged European prints of other pumas.^[xiii] The investigation file was closed in summer 1967.^{[11] [better source needed]} The law station'due south logbook also lists 362 sightings of alien big cats (ABCs), occurring between September 1964 – August 1966.^[xiv]

1966

Surrey: In Baronial 1966, former police photographer Ian Pert took a grainy photograph of a cat facing the camera in Worplesdon, with a longer-than-average body length.^{[a] [ameliorate source needed]}

1968 and 1970

Surrey: In 1968, a farmer claimed to have shot a puma, simply could non provide any evidence. Sightings gradually tailed off, although paw prints plant in the snow in 1970 generated a flurry of further reports.^[a]

1970s

From the 1970s reports spread across the country; the Fauna of Exmoor was reported from Devon and Somerset,^{[ citation needed ]} the Stratford Lyon was reported around the Carmine Lion Pub, Boldre,^{[15] [ unreliable source? ]} and the "Sheppey panther" has been rumoured to be since that decade.^{[16] [17] [ unreliable source? ]} The Hurtwood spans Farley Green, Pitch Colina, Peaslake, and Holmbury Hill.

1975

Surrey: An 8-yr-old boy was playing alone in woodland in Chiddingfold at 51.1117°N 0.62507°W. This backs onto a field, from which he declared a aureate-coloured big cat entered the woodland. The cat walked (what amounted to) w, staying close to the edge of the field and, while passing about 10 metres away, turned its head, staring momentarily at the boy, but was disinterested and carried on walking. When asked if it could have been a dog, the boy replied "No, because it had a long curved tail, a wide head and it picked its feet upward like a true cat ... but it was the aforementioned size equally a large domestic dog". ^[eighteen]

1984

Surrey: In 1984 hair samples taken at Peaslake, a few miles northeast in the heavily wooded office of Greensand Ridge, were identified every bit puma.^{[better source needed]} In the previous twelvemonth an unclassified big cat dubbed 'alien' featured in The Archers and the Beast of Exmoor made national headlines. In came the showtime modernistic report from Scotland,^{[ citation needed ]} and the Kellas True cat was shot there in 1984.

1992

Greater interest in phantom cats grew from headline stories of the beast of Bodmin from 1992,^{[ commendation needed ]} and Dumfries and Galloway (the Galloway Puma). In the celebrated Buchan area of Aberdeenshire the fauna is dubbed the Creature of Buchan and sightings are regularly documented.^[xix] A black panther known as the "Beast of Dartmoor" was reportedly seen by a group of fifteen people, including M. Warburton, in summer 2011 in the Haldon Forest.^{[20] [21]} There were many more news stories from different parts of the country.^{[22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]}

1995

The Surrey Advertiser newspaper reported a sighting recorded by police officer Steve Ashcroft outside hilltop St Teresa's School Effingham.

2003

Surrey: Detective Constable Stephen Ashcroft saw the same or similar 'upwardly at Holmbury (Loma)' in June 2003, an surface area with sightings logged within the post-obit 12 months by Peter Hayes, warden of the Hurtwood which covers the hill and the ridge to its n and west.

2004

Surrey: The newspaper added residents of Abinger Mutual (the neighbouring woodland and farmland area) who reported that in the 'terminal 2 weeks' they had seen a big cat, relying on the Large Cat Survey past the British Large Cats organisation.

2005

Surrey: A Mr. Fowler, visiting with his partner at Winkworth Arboretum, sent their video camera footage to a local newspaper, which they reproduced in stills. They described this animal as "gingery-chocolate-brown colour, nigh the size of an alsatian domestic dog but it definitely wasn't a pull a fast one on". Surrey Wildlife Trust ranger Marker Havler believed it was an Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) and received 15 calls of sightings in the post-obit two weeks.

Reports that year logged at the Surrey Advertiser headquarters were of more one non-native wild cat in the Borough of Guildford and neighbouring districts: some of "spots and a bob tail on a sandy-coloured beast, suggesting a lynx", others of "no spots and a long tail, which could hateful a puma"; two residents walkers' names were included in their published overview report beyond the years since the 1960s.^[thirty] The reporter interviewed the Animal Liaison Officer of Marwell Zoo exterior of the sightings' expanse to assess whether the old and new findings were linked, who explained the demand for sufficient breeding pairs given these animal's wild lifespan, with say at a 1 in 99 likelihood in ideal conditions of having multi-generational offspring, if the first alleged sightings were truthful and he expressed doubt on the veracity of most reports

The report states that 'over xl years ago, [thus around 1964]' information technology reported the first advent of a "gilt brown brute of effectually three to v feet in length while he was blackberrying i lunchtime" by George Wisdom, who described himself equally a 'Munstead workman'.^[xxx] Munstead is a wooded function of Busbridge noted for the vernacular manner Arts and Crafts house and garden at Munstead Wood.

2011

In the early months of 2011, a great number of sightings of a 'panther' in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, stirred locals and began to exist reported in the local press, after a couple of months, these reports ceased with the assumption that the 'panther' had moved onto pastures new.^[31]

A fully grown Maine coon, the largest brood of domestic cat. At a recorded maximum length of 120 cm (47 in) including tail, Maine coon cats tin reach the length of Eurasian lynxes, although with a much lighter build and lower height, their light bodies somewhat concealed by their heavy fur.^{[32] [33]}

2012

One of the nearly recent reports was of that of the "Essex lion", a lion purportedly roaming around Essex during summer 2012. Initially sighted from a caravan park, at that place were also reports of lion roaring heard in the local area. A photograph was taken past one witness. Police force advised local residents to stay indoors and a search was made of the local surface area, but nothing was found. Local zoos and visiting circuses were contacted, but none reported an escaped king of beasts. A Ms. Murphy later on claimed the photo was that of her pet Maine coon cat, Teddy.^[34]

2013

In 2013, in a small hamlet on the Shropshire-Wrexham border, ii sisters reported seeing a large, black, felid with a 3-foot (one one thousand) pace jumping a fence and disappearing into a neighbouring field. On returning in the twenty-four hour period, they discovered a large pair and mitt prints also large to belong to a domesticated cat. A in one case zoo-keeper at Chester Zoo and Dudley Zoo, Mr. Larkham, agreed that the paw prints do not belong to a domesticated cat but were too small to be those of a panther. He believed information technology could be the descendant of the "Shropshire jungle" cat from the 1980s, or a gigantic domesticated true cat.^[35]

2019

In Apr 2019 it was claimed that a big cat was sighted in the Cornish hamlet of Harrowbarrow, afterwards it attacked a dog. Residents claimed that five local pet cats had disappeared and that a local herd of deer was no longer visiting the fields most the village. A large paw print, identified every bit that of a panther or puma by the RSPCA was also found. Footage of a black panther-like cat emerged a few days later.^{[ citation needed ]}

Species that have been noted just occasionally include the leopard true cat, which is the size of a domestic cat simply has leopard-like spots, the clouded leopard, a specialised species from the tropics which was captured afterward living wild in Kent in 1975, and there are even extraordinary cases of lions existence reported in Devon and Somerset.^[36]

In August 2012, several sightings of a lion were reported near St. Osyth in Essex. Police force searched the area using helicopters and infrared cameras, instructing residents to stay in their homes. Despite speculation that the panthera leo had escaped from Colchester Zoo or a local circus, all such animals were deemed for. The search was called off the next day with no evidence of a panthera leo having been found.^[37] A local resident claimed that a photo of the declared brute showed their pet true cat, a large Maine coon.^{[34] [38]}

There have been reports of a cat known every bit the Beast of Bevendean for several years across Sussex, including in Brighton and Hove.^[39]

In popular culture and film [edit]

In 1967 children'due south novelist Monica Edwards took the story on in her Dial Bowl Farm series, as The Wild One.^[40]

A fictional attempt to trap the Beast is the field of study of the film Young Hunters: The Beast of Bevendean (2015).^[41]

The stories of British big cats take inspired a number of drinks including Exmoor Beast, a strong dark porter brewed by Exmoor Ales,^[42] Fauna of Bodmin a red ale fabricated past the Firebrand Brewing Company^[43] and the Dartmoor Distillery's Dartmoor Beast Gin.^[44]

Testify [edit]

Captures and remains [edit]

This puma (Puma concolor) was captured in the wild, in Inverness-shire, Scotland in 1980. It is believed to have been an abased pet. It lived the balance of its life in a zoo. After it died it was stuffed and placed in Inverness Museum.

The Taxidermied remains of the jungle cat killed by a motorcar on Hayling Isle

A Canadian lynx shot in Devon in 1903 is at present in the collection of the Bristol Museum.^[45] Analysis of its teeth suggests that prior to its death it had spent a significant amount of time in captivity.^[45]

In 1980 a puma was captured in Inverness-shire, Scotland. The capture followed several years of sightings in the area of a large cat matching the description of the 1 captured, which had led local farmer Ted Noble to erect a cage trap. The puma was afterward put into the Highland Wild animals Park zoo and given the proper name "Felicity". When it died it was stuffed and was placed in Inverness Museum.^[46] Zoo director Eddie Orbell concluded that the animal had been tamed and might not have been released for long, noting that it enjoyed being tickled.^[47]

In 1988 a jungle cat was killed after being striking by a car on Hayling Island.^[48] The taxidermied remains ended up in the collection of Hampshire museum services.^[48] A year later 1989 a jungle true cat that had been hit by a motorcar was constitute on the roadside in Shropshire.^[49]

In 1991 a Eurasian lynx was shot near Norwich, Norfolk. Information technology had killed effectually fifteen sheep within two weeks. The story was only reported in 2003, and the stuffed trunk of the lynx is allegedly now in the possession of a collector. For many years this incident was considered to accept been a hoax, particularly by the hunting community, but in March 2006 a police report confirmed that the case was true. It was probably an escapee from a facility in the surface area that bred animals, including Eurasian lynxes.^[fifty]

In 1994 it was reported that a large cat with leopard-design fur had been shot on the Isle of Wight some fourth dimension earlier after feasting on chickens and ducks. The shooting was not immediately reported every bit the farm worker involved feared prosecution, only police reportedly concluded that the fauna was an ocelot or serval.^{[ citation needed ]}

In that location have been reports that in 1993 yet some other puma was captured in Scotland, this time in the Aviemore expanse.^{[46] [51]}

In 1996, police in Fintona, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland shot a true cat. Information technology was reportedly a caracal, a medium-sized mutiny species plant in Africa and Asia, although a police force report described it as a lynx.^{[four] [52]} (Caracals are sometimes called desert lynxes, but are not true members of the genus Lynx.)^[53]

In a well-reported 2001 case ("the Animal of Barnet"), a young female Eurasian lynx was captured alive past police force and vets in Cricklewood, north-London, later a hunt across school playing fields and into a block of flats. It was placed in London Zoo and given the name "Lara" before ultimately being transferred to a zoo in France to breed.^{[54] [55]} The captured lynx was found to exist only 18 months old, although considerably larger than an boilerplate domestic cat.^{[four] [56]}

In November 2017, a trucker claimed to have seen three highways workers struggling to lift the body of a dead 4-pes (ane.2 m) blackness panther into the back of a truck in a lay-past on the A1 near Harworth.^[57] However, Highways England responded with a statement to say that it was a dead black dog that they had loaded onto the back of the truck.^[57]

This list excludes escapes of short elapsing and known origin. Examples of this include an incident in Grimsby in 1991 when four lions managed to escape from a circus (or possibly were released) before being captured the same day.^[58]

Video and photographic evidence [edit]

A European mutiny, the Scottish population of which is the only wild cat species known to live in Britain.

Around 1993, a number of reports were fabricated of a large blackness cat around Bodmin Moor, nicknamed the "Animal of Bodmin", with at to the lowest degree 2 videos fabricated. Some video evidence was examined by government scientists, who concluded from the position of the camera and creature that the sightings were of blackness cats no more than 30 cm (12 in) loftier at the shoulder.^{[five] [6]}

Xx-one years after this a colour video at Winkworth Arboretum (NT), Busbridge next to Godalming was taken of a large cat walking away below a branch. A Surrey Wild fauna Trust published they doubted any "puma" course as the recorder thought, but rather thought it could exist an Iberian lynx, comparison other reports made that year in Surrey's Borough of Guildford. Less well noted similar accounts have been sporadically reported since 1959, but accept tended to exist vague or bearding.^[xvi]

In 1994 footage of a large blackness true cat was recorded in Cambridgeshire and was named in the media as the "fen tiger".^[59]

In June 2006 a big black cat was recorded in the countryside of Banff, Aberdeenshire. Footage of the cat was broadcast by the BBC on 24 May 2007.^[threescore]

In July 2009, photographs and video footage of a big blackness cat were taken by an off-duty Ministry of Defence force Police officer. The animal was walking along a railway line in Helensburgh, Argyll. Big cats, either black or tan, have been reported in the area earlier.^[61]

In late 2009 video footage of what is claimed to be a large blackness cat was recorded in Herefordshire.^[62] The sighting and video footage of the alleged big true cat coincided with a spree of sheep killings in the same expanse.^[63]

In 2010 video footage of what is claimed to exist a large black true cat was recorded in Stroud, Gloucestershire.^[64] 'Experts' have estimated that the animal was at to the lowest degree 5 feet (i.5 one thousand) in length from nose to tail.^[65]

In 2011 a family unit walking in Fochabers Forest, Moray, photographed a large black true cat matching the description of a wood jaguar.^[66]

In 2013, photos were taken of what appeared to be a large blackness cat on the estate of Sir Benjamin Slade, 7th Baronet in Somerset.^[67]

In 2017 in that location were five sightings of big cats in Gloucestershire, some with photographic evidence.^[68]

In April 2017 a female parent and her teenage girl took several photos of what appears to take been a big blackness large cat in the Quantock Hills, Somerset, which was speculated past BeastWatch U.k., a non-turn a profit organisation that collates and reports on exotic wildlife, that information technology could take been a panther or jaguar.^[69]

A 2017 documentary included footage taken by an off-duty police officeholder in the West Midlands of a large black cat that was analysed by a big cat proficient from Southward Africa who concluded that it had the characteristics of a black leopard.^[70] He also analysed footage taken of a large black cat in the village of Maiden Newton, Dorset and said that it was the "well-nigh conclusive evidence so far that a black leopard is on the loose in the Great britain".^[71]

2020 saw the public locked downward past Covid restrictions for large portions of the yr. With people confined to their homes and restricted to local walks for recreation, this year saw a large numbers of sightings across the land. In Cambridgeshire a large leopard like cat was photographed drawing comparisons with the legendary "fen tiger".^[72] Gloucestershire had numerous sightings.^[73] Due north Wales, a known hotspot for big cats, where "It seems it'south common cognition amid many local communities that a small population of big cats such as pumas be inside North Wales." had its share although information technology was just caught on photographic camera once.^[74] In Somerset an creature fitting the clarification of a melanistic leopard was seen by a number of witnesses in diverse places. "One person believes she has footage of a large cat and has approached a big cat skilful to review her evidence."^[75] In Leicestershire an brute was caught on camera.^[76] A serval-like cat was photographed in Due north London.^[77]

In 2021 in large dark coloured true cat was filmed in Flintshire.^[78]

Attacks [edit]

In 2000 an 11-year-sometime boy in Monmouthshire was attacked by what he claims was a large blackness true cat. It left him with 5 long hook marks across his left cheek. The police force called in a big cat skilful to investigate the incident.^[79]

In 2005 a homo who lived in Sydenham Park in south-east London was attacked in his dorsum garden, which backed onto a railway line. The homo who was 6 ft (1.8 m) and weighed 15 stone (210 lb; 95 kg) described the true cat every bit being a large black effigy that pounced on him and was considerably stronger than he was. He was left with scratches all over his body. Police were called and according to the BBC, ane police officeholder saw a cat the size of a Labrador dog.^[80] The man who was attacked sustained scratches to his confront and the alleged big cat was named locally every bit the "Brute of Sydenham".^[81]

In 2008, information technology was reported that a 74 year old woman was attacked on two divide occasions by a big cat in Alness, Scottish Highlands, leaving her with injuries, but a Scottish wildcat expert ended that it was most probable a large feral domestic cat living wild, peradventure a hybrid with a Scottish wildcat, but ruled out that a Scottish wildcat itself was responsible for the attacks.^[82]

In 2019 a man in Cornwall reported that a 6 ft (1.8 1000) black true cat attacked him through an open window and that it was trying to make it through the window.^{[83] [84]} He described information technology as being crossed betwixt a domestic cat and a panther.^{[83] [84]} He was said to have reported it to the police and claimed "that they were non interested".^[84]

Dna evidence [edit]

There have been conflicting reports of Dna evidence as to the existence of big cats in Britain: In 2011 it was announced past the Centre for Fortean Zoology that DNA testing, carried out by Durham University on hairs institute in n-Devon, showed that a leopard was living in the area.^[85] In 2012 it was announced that Deoxyribonucleic acid testing on ii deer carcasses found in Gloucestershire constitute merely fox DNA, despite many locals reporting sightings and assertive that the deer had been killed past a large cat.^[86]

The Cotswolds big true cat [edit]

The "Cotswolds large cat" was a purported big cat or number of big cats at large in the Cotswolds region of England.^{[87] [88] [89]}

A walker in Woodchester Park found the carcass of a roe deer on 12 January 2012, with injuries suggesting the animate being may have been mauled by a big felid.^[87] A second similar deer carcass was institute on 16 January 2012.^[88]

An analysis of the deer carcasses by University of Warwick scientists but indicated Dna bear witness of foxes and other deer.^[90]

Regime involvement [edit]

In 1988, the Ministry building of Agriculture took the unusual footstep of sending in Royal Marines to bear out a massive search for the rumoured Creature of Exmoor after an increment in the number of mysteriously killed livestock, and farmer complaints over subsequent loss of money. Several Marines claimed to have seen the cat fleetingly, only zip other than a fox was ever found. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Diplomacy has published a listing of predatory cats that they know to take escaped in the Great britain, although most of these have been recaptured.^[91]

Mythological explanation [edit]

For many hundreds of years the myth of the spectral Black Dog has persisted in Uk – a supposed mythical creature actualization as a big blackness animal in remote moorland with no firm evidence for its existence, beyond hearsay. It has been suggested that the stories of "Black Cats" are merely a modernistic continuation of such myths and stories, sharing the same elements but with the idea of a supernatural cause having fallen out of brownie and the modern, more plausible, idea of an escaped or released mutiny supplanting it.^[92] In addition, the stories of large cats share many traits suitable for the tabloid press – as such leading to broad exposure of any potential "cat" and further and rapid dissemination of any speculation or supposed show for it, helping to build a widespread urban legend.

Run into also [edit]

• Cryptozoology
• European wildcat
• Kellas cat
• The Siege of White Deer Park – children's novel by Colin Dann featuring a big true cat hiding in an English language wood

Footnotes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} The "Surrey puma" photograph of 1966, taken near Worplesdon past erstwhile Law photographer Pert, and reports of 1996 from the same village Thebrgs.homestead.com^{[self-published source?]} from web.annal.org^{[better source needed]}.

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