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2. <b>DESPITE being officially extinct, the Tasmanian Tiger is still making news headlines, even here in Northern NSW.</b><br />
3. <b>  There have been several recent sightings of an unusual 'dog-like' animal, seen <img alt="" class="right" src="http://media.apnonline.com.au/67.1/img/media/images/2012/02/23/Gary_Opits_drawing_of_Qld_Marsupial_Tiger.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; float: right; height: 151px; margin: 4px; width: 325px;" />in and around the region and north coast wildlife expert Gary Opit has been taking note.</b><br />
4. <b>  For the past 15 years, Mr Opit has been a regular guest speaker on ABC  North Coast (formerly 2NR) and in that time he has received around 50  reports from callers describing an unfamiliar animal that he said  resembles one of two species, possibly the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo  carnifex), or the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus).</b><br />
5. <b>  While the last known Tasmanian Tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936, Mr  Opit said that the most recent fossil evidence of the marsupial lion,  which lived on Australia's mainland, was dated at around 3000 years old.</b><br />
6. <b>  Many of the recent sightings have occurred around Mullumbimby, Nimbin and Byron Bay.</b><br />
7. <b>  But before you jump to any conclusions, Mr Opit has been gathering  newspaper clippings and eyewitness reports from all over Australia since  the early 1960s when, as a young man, he first became interested in  unusual and unclassified native animals.</b><br />
8. <b><strong>(Pictured right: Gary Opit's drawing of a Queensland Marsupial Tiger)</strong></b><br />
9. <b>  "I always wanted to be a zoologist, was always visiting Taronga zoo and  the Australian Museum and, as a 19-year-old Sydney teenager, I bought  my first zoological text book, 'Furred Animals of Australia' by the  Curator of Mammals at the Australian Museum, Ellis Troughton, our top  zoologist," Mr Opit said.</b><br />
10. <b>  "I was surprised to find between the studies and descriptions of the  Tasmanian Devil and the Tasmanian Tiger, two pages dedicated to the  Striped Marsupial-cat of North Queensland. Years earlier, in 1963, I had  kept a clipping from one of the Sydney papers with a photograph of an  unknown animal, described as the Ozenkadnook Tiger and taken by a  Melbourne lady named Rilla Martin," he said.</b><br />
11. <b>  Not long after, the young Gary Opit moved with his family to Surfers  Paradise and it was here that he read and kept a letter to the editor to  the Gold Coast Bulletin, published 22 September 1967, from Mr Carl  Lentz, an early pioneer, who wrote in response to articles on a mystery  animal observed by people on the edge of Southport living beside the  State Forest.</b><br />
12. <b>  He wrote: "Then a great strange head appeared out of the thick foliage.  It was about to jump towards me so I quickly fired and it fell with a  hard bump onto stones only two yards away. It was as big as an Alsatian  dog. We tied its legs together with tough vines and stuck a long pole  through them, by which we carried it home about half a mile. It was  heavy. I intended to take it to Nerang 10 miles away by pack horse the  next day and send it by train to the Brisbane Museum but owing to heavy  rains all night causing the creek to flood we couldn't make the journey  to Nerang so we measured it and skinned it instead."</b><br />
13. <b>  "From the tip of the nose to the end of its long thick black tail it  measured six feet, height of shoulder 25 inches, around the chest 23  inches. It was long in the body and strongly built on the forequarters,  but more slightly built around the waist and hindquarters. It had two  extra long sharp fang teeth, one and five eighth inches long besides the  four ordinary incisor teeth. Its forehead and face was a light bronze  colour. It had five bright orange rings of very short hair around its  eyes. Its eyes were puce (purplish-brown) coloured. It had round ears of  a pale fleshy colour, almost human ears. It had a short thick coat of  light pale blue-grey and white stripes running downwards with bright,  marble-sized orange to yellow spots along the flanks."</b><br />
14. <b>  "From the back of the head covering the body it had a dark thin coat of  black hairs and this made it appear a brindled colour at a distance  when seen standing up from the side. The light pale blue-grey and white  stripes running downwards along the flanks shone through the long thin  outer coat of black hairs and looked very pretty close up. Its tail was  covered with long black hair, underneath that, white and blue-grey rings  an inch wide. It was a magnificent, male, specimen."</b><br />
15. <b>  After this, Mr Opit heard reports of a similar experience, which  happened to Gilston's first pioneer, Mr. William Duncan who related that  the blacks called the animal a 'Punchum'</b><br />
16. <b>  A couple of years later in 1969, Mr Opit was fortunate to himself see this animal cross the road at night and drew a picture.</b><br />
17. <b>  "I used to work with Australia's most famous zoologist David Fleay at  his zoo at West Burleigh, he was famous for filming the only movie  footage of the last Tasmanian tiger in Hobart in 1936 and the first to  breed the platypus. A couple of times people described to him the same  animal that I had seen and he wondered if it could be a mainland  representative of the Tasmanian tiger."</b><br />
18. <b>  In the early 1970s, Mr Opit began working as a park ranger for the QLD  National Parks, and while at O'Reilly's in Lamington National Park, he  recorded wildlife but never heard any more about the Punchum and he  thought that whatever it was it was probably extinct.</b><br />
19. <b>  Then, in the mid 1980s and early 1990s, Mr Opit received reports and  drawings from people on Tamborine Mountain where he lived on and off for  25 years, but he had never seen it himself even though he explored most  of the forests identifying plants and animals.</b><br />
20. <b>  "It was only after moving to live on Jones Road between Wooyung and  Yelgun that I finally observed again what is probably the same unknown  carnivorous marsupial, the Punchum, though this individual is very dark  brown," he said.</b><br />
21. <b>  "I have found it two other times in the Billinudgel Nature Reserve and both times it moved off rapidly."</b><br />
22. <b>  "I have never really gone too public about it before, except mentioning  it on my Wildlife Wednesday broadcast two or three times over the last  15 years of broadcasting, when listeners described a similar animal that  they had observed. Eventually I put all the reports that sounded most  like a thylacine together for the ABC website. I still don't know what  it is."</b><br />
23. <b>  As an Environmental Scientist, Mr Opit has assisted Australian  Government's in all areas of conservation and is highly regarded in the  Australian Crypto world as an authority.</b><br />
24. <b>  To view Mr Opits log of eye-witness reports, visit <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/02/262172927" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/02/262172927</a></b><br />
25. <b>  Have you seen an animal you can't identify?</b><br />
26. <b>  We'd love to hear about it.</b><br />
27. <b>  Better still, if you have a photo or video, please get in touch and we will put you in contact with Mr Opit.</b><br />
28. <b><a href="http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2012/02/23/tassie-tigers-sighted-northern-nsw/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">source</a> </b><br />
29. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-755839822287728717?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/755839822287728717?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/755839822287728717?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/02/tassie-tigers-sighted-locally.html' title='Tassie Tigers sighted locally'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkUMQnY8eip7ImA9WhRaGU0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-2242203148456206030</id><published>2012-02-22T00:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-22T00:44:43.872-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-02-22T00:44:43.872-08:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wildcats spotted in Yarra Ranges'/><title>Wildcats spotted in Yarra Ranges</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;YARRA Ranges residents believe pumas are not the only big cats to roam the hills.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
30. <b>Healesville farmer Ken Lang believes there are both leopards and pumas living in the area.</b><br />
31. <b><strong>>> Have you seen or heard of any big cats in the area? Tell us below.</strong></b><br />
32. <b>“When I first came here in about 1980 a neighbour complained they  found two dead lambs that had been chewed, high up in the fork of a  tree,” Mr Lang said.</b><br />
33. <b>“Puma’s don’t do that.”</b><br />
34. <b>He said several years ago a big cat tried to pull down a pony on Don  Rd, Badger Creek, leaving the animal with big claw marks down its  flanks.</b><br />
35. <b>“Pumas eat anything from insects to antelopes, but I doubt they could try and pull down a pony. </b><br />
36. <b>“Leopards, however, can eat small game,” Mr Lang said.</b><br />
37. <b>He regularly loses stock to foxes and eagles, and the occasional wild  dog - and is adamant he has seen a large black animal stalking his  deer.</b><br />
38. <b>He said he had talked to a Healesville plumber whose father was in  the Australian army when the American officers were rumoured to have  released pumas into the Victorian countryside.</b><br />
39. <b>Mr Lang said the soldiers released the large cats onto a farm in  Gippsland, and said the felines would come up to the farm to be fed for  the first six months after their release.</b><br />
40. <b>After that they were never seen again. Leader has been inundated with  phone calls and letters following last week’s report Cat scanned  (February 15), with residents confirming sightings from Dixons Creek,  Gruyere, Gembrook, Emerald and Upwey.</b><br />
41. <b>Toolangi naturalist Bernie Mace has researched big cat sightings for  more than 30 years and has seen and heard pumas in the area.</b><br />
42. <b>“It is my belief that we have at least one exotic species of big cat  in Victoria which is the puma, Felis Concolor,” Mr Mace said.</b><br />
43. <b>“If a puma doesn’t want you to find it, you won’t because they are brilliant at keeping out of sight.” </b><br />
44. <b>He said he had talked to a family whose encounter with a leopard matched the physical description of the animal. </b><br />
45. <b>Mr Mace said the sightings of big darker-coloured cats could be a “melanistic” puma, which are distinctively black.</b><br />
46. <b>The scientist said he had talked to witnesses who had been at the farm where American soldiers set a puma and her cubs free.</b><br />
47. <b>“The farm had changed hands a couple of times by the time I got  there, and I was shown the spot where the pumas were released,” Mr Mace  said.</b><br />
48. <b>“I believe the pumas were a popular US mascot when the soldiers were  in Australia, and I’m of the belief there were several releases around  Victoria.”</b><br />
49. <b>He said there must be a “nucleus” of male and female pumas, otherwise there would be significant genetic issues.</b><br />
50. &lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://free-press-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/wildcats-spotted-in-yarra-ranges/#.T0SdyQFkBmo.email" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-2242203148456206030?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/2242203148456206030?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/2242203148456206030?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/02/wildcats-spotted-in-yarra-ranges.html' title='Wildcats spotted in Yarra Ranges'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;A0INQHs_eCp7ImA9WhRbFk0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-3254481082153813510</id><published>2012-02-06T17:32:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-07T02:13:11.540-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-02-07T02:13:11.540-08:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uk bigcats'/><title>Six-foot Big Cat captured on video</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;I had to pull the embed video link &lt;u&gt;which "The Sun" supplie&lt;/u&gt;s  because for the first time ever..someone wanted me to pay £500 for using the embed code on my site..amazing..&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
51. <b>Here is the <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article4112450.ece" target="_blank">video</a>..</b><br />
52. <b>A LEOPARD-like creature 6ft from nose to tail is caught on video bounding across a field at dusk — which an expert believes is final proof Britain's Big Cats really do exist.</b><br />
53. <b>Why big cats may roam UK
TV naturalist reveals why he thinks we share the countryside with animals like pumas 
The film was taken by teaching assistant Coryn Memory close to the site of a recent spate of deer killings.</b><br />
54. <b>But it was not an isolated sighting. Coryn, 45, says she has seen the animal, described as a "slim, black leopard" in a valley outside Stroud, Gloucs, FIVE TIMES — before finally getting the evidence on film.</b><br />
55. <b>She said: "It was around for about 20 minutes and luckily I had my camera. It was probably 300 yards away and I don't think it was aware I was there.</b><br />
56. <b>"It came in and out of the field and at one point seemed to be having a root around, probably for small animals.</b><br />
57. <b>Video: Big cat gets caught on tape</b><br />
58. <b>BEAST moggie is '6 feet long', and is 'one of UK's most brutal predators'</b><br />
59. <b>"At one stage a fox was in the same shot so you could compare the difference in size.</b><br />
60. <b>Coryn added: "I would describe it as a small leopard-like Big Cat and I think it's been around for a couple of years.</b><br />
61. <b>"But I don't think it's a danger or threat."</b><br />
62. <b>Wildlife expert Frank Tunbridge, who has spent 25 years investigating Big Cats in the Cotswolds, described the film as "conclusive proof" they exist.</b><br />
63. <b>To work out the animal's size, he was filmed with a cut-out of a Big Cat at the spot where the "Beast Of Stroud" was filmed. That footage was then superimposed over the original.</b><br />
64. <b>It showed the Big Cat was even bigger than his estimate — 6ft long and 2ft high to the top of its shoulder.</b><br />
65. &lt;a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article4112450.ece" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;source&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-3254481082153813510?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/3254481082153813510?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/3254481082153813510?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/02/blog-post.html' title='Six-foot Big Cat captured on video'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEIBRXg_fip7ImA9WhRbEkg.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-8507531461566582793</id><published>2012-02-03T00:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-03T00:09:14.646-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-02-03T00:09:14.646-08:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DNA tests to solve big cat mystery find a fox'/><title>UK-DNA tests to solve big cat mystery find a fox</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;DNA tests commissioned by the National Trust to find once and for all if there is a big cat on the prowl in Gloucestershire have confirmed it is a fox. &lt;br /&gt;
66. The tests on saliva found on two deer carcasses were carried out by the University of Warwick and followed closely by conspiracy theorists around the country, who insist that big cats have been breeding in the wild since the 1970s when they were released from private zoos.<br />
67. However the extensive tests found that both carcasses, found near Woodchester Park, hadbeen eaten by a fox, or possibly a dog.<br />
68. The roe deer, which showed puncture parks on the neck, could have even been brought down by a large fox, prompting questions about the nature of the new canine ‘beast of Woodchester’.<br />
69. Dr Robin Allaby, Associate Professor at the School of Life Sciences, took 45 samples in total from the wounds of the deer carcasses and carried out hundreds of tests. “We did not detect cat DNA on either deer carcass,” he said. “Other than deer, by far the strongest genetic signal we found... was from a fox."<br />
70. John Bryant, an expert on foxes, said even a large fox could not have brought down a fully grown deer. He said it was much more likely both deer were killed or injured by dogs and then the meat scavenged by foxes.<br />
71. <br />
72. David Armstrong, Head Ranger for the National Trust in Gloucestershire, said people were never scared of the big cat and many remained convinced that there is an “interesting” creature in the wood,.<br />
73. “The story of the investigation of the dead deer has really sparked off local curiosity with a lot of people coming out to Woodchester Park to explore. People love a mystery like this and although we haven’t found a wild cat, many of our visitors clearly believe there might be something interesting living quietly hidden in Woodchester.”<br />
74. Rick Minter, author of a new book on big cats reported in Britain, insisted there is still plenty of evidence of big cats through sightings, photographs and even video and the hunt is not over yet.<br />
75. "We should not be complacent about possible big cats in the UK, but considering these animals living secretly in our landscape can fire people's imaginations and help us consider all of the wild nature around us. Our outdoors can still hold surprises - maybe." </b><br />
76. &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9054431/DNA-tests-to-solve-big-cat-mystery-find-a-fox.html" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-8507531461566582793?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9054431/DNA-tests-to-solve-big-cat-mystery-find-a-fox.html' title='UK-DNA tests to solve big cat mystery find a fox'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/8507531461566582793?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/8507531461566582793?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/02/dna-tests-to-solve-big-cat-mystery-find.html' title='UK-DNA tests to solve big cat mystery find a fox'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkcBRHg6cSp7ImA9WhRUFUU.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-1809713944564135606</id><published>2012-01-26T04:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T04:14:15.619-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-26T04:14:15.619-08:00</app:edited><title>Wildcat Woodchester strikes 3 wallabies savaged death by big cat ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
77. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Experts now believe the animals were devoured by the Wildcat of Woodchester which is already believed to have killed three times this month.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The mutilated bodies of three deer have been found in the past few weeks in countryside near Stroud, Gloucestershire -  just 12 miles from where the wallabies were mauled to death.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Samples of DNA  from the predator's first deer kill on January 4 are currently being tested to confirm whether or not a big cat is behind the killings.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The results are expected to be revealed over the next few days.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>But big cat expert Frank Tunbridge is in no doubt over who killed the wallabies and the deer.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mr Tunbridge, 65, said: 'There could be no creature other than a big cat that could bring down and kill these wallabies.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>'The field was surrounded by a 7ft fence and there was no apparent entry signs - so the predator must have leapt over it.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>'The killer struck over two nights. The first night he killed two wallabies, stripped one of the carcasses down and hid the other under a pile of leaves and straw.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>'Then he came back and killed a third - devouring his further kills. A fourth wallaby appears to have died from a heart attack.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>'The wallabies are only about 12 miles from Woodchester so it appears that this could be the same big cat.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>'They have all the hallmarks of a panther or puma kill.'</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The wallabies, part of a private collection, were found by their devastated owner on January 6 - two days after the apparent first kill by the Wildcat of Woodchester.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Gloucestershire farmer did not want to divulge his name or location.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091613/Wildcat-Woodchester-strikes-3-wallabies-savaged-death-big-cat.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>Source</b></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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87. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-1809713944564135606?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091613/Wildcat-Woodchester-strikes-3-wallabies-savaged-death-big-cat.html' title='Wildcat Woodchester strikes 3 wallabies savaged death by big cat ?'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/1809713944564135606?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/1809713944564135606?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/01/wildcat-woodchester-strikes-3-wallabies.html' title='Wildcat Woodchester strikes 3 wallabies savaged death by big cat ?'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D4lYPoviBNM/TyFC5twaFeI/AAAAAAAABeM/ZrxJXgRt2eU/s72-c/wallaby+and+man.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DkYBSHYzeip7ImA9WhRVFUQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-7804732747259891284</id><published>2012-01-14T18:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T18:22:39.882-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-14T18:22:39.882-08:00</app:edited><title>Big Cat at Woodchester</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Thanks to Rick Minter !!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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90. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="157" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L61t7wLUaRo" width="280"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-7804732747259891284?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7804732747259891284?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7804732747259891284?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/01/big-cat-at-woodchester.html' title='Big Cat at Woodchester'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/L61t7wLUaRo/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DE8FSHw7eSp7ImA9WhRVFEw.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-6829920111640951417</id><published>2012-01-12T17:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T17:06:59.201-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-12T17:06:59.201-08:00</app:edited><title>Mystery Black "panther"sightings in New Orleans</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Might be a jaguarundi ?..or Just f.cattus.. :)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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92. <i>About nine months after a rash of supposed black panther sightings in the New Orleans area, employees of a St. Tammany Parish office building reported seeing such an animal Wednesday to the Sheriff's Office. Experts have discarded North American black panthers as myths, but the unidentified people working in a building on the service road near the Interstate 12 westbound entrance ramp from U.S. 190 south of Covington nonetheless called deputies about noon and said they had seen one in the area.</i><br />
93. <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/despite_scientific_skepticism.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Source</span></a><br />
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95. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fXyQxA2xMJU/Tw-DLJkEV-I/AAAAAAAABdk/VcSuilxe-IM/s1600/reported-black-panther-11302011jpg-f1d21d78830125d9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fXyQxA2xMJU/Tw-DLJkEV-I/AAAAAAAABdk/VcSuilxe-IM/s320/reported-black-panther-11302011jpg-f1d21d78830125d9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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99. &lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nQi0aw0A2AQ/Tw-DRRU-sAI/AAAAAAAABds/SgUmAguBVrk/s1600/Jaguarundi1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="219" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nQi0aw0A2AQ/Tw-DRRU-sAI/AAAAAAAABds/SgUmAguBVrk/s320/Jaguarundi1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-6829920111640951417?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/despite_scientific_skepticism.html' title='Mystery Black &quot;panther&quot;sightings in New Orleans'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6829920111640951417?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6829920111640951417?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/01/black-panthersightings-in-new-orleans.html' title='Mystery Black &quot;panther&quot;sightings in New Orleans'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fXyQxA2xMJU/Tw-DLJkEV-I/AAAAAAAABdk/VcSuilxe-IM/s72-c/reported-black-panther-11302011jpg-f1d21d78830125d9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DE8ER3g6eCp7ImA9WhRVE0w.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-7778965018065121557</id><published>2012-01-11T13:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T13:20:06.610-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-11T13:20:06.610-08:00</app:edited><title>Toddler and the Lion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6231539/Wellington-toddler-faces-down-massive-lion" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="325" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qUeGhXG35wA/Tw38pRl29gI/AAAAAAAABdU/vVz1L-Lk2nc/s400/toddler.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-7778965018065121557?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6231539/Wellington-toddler-faces-down-massive-lion' title='Toddler and the Lion'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7778965018065121557?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7778965018065121557?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/01/toddler-and-lion.html' title='Toddler and the Lion'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qUeGhXG35wA/Tw38pRl29gI/AAAAAAAABdU/vVz1L-Lk2nc/s72-c/toddler.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;AkQFRn88eip7ImA9WhRVEko.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-7718397360818401475</id><published>2012-01-11T02:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T02:38:37.172-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-11T02:38:37.172-08:00</app:edited><title>UK BigCats Rick Minter Interview</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Great Interview with Rick Minter Talking about his new book.!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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102. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.furryfeet.tv/cotswolds/venue_video.php?footprint=548" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pV8YZm3ylp0/Tw1mG3dTqxI/AAAAAAAABdM/flCWvCc-MBI/s400/cotswold.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><br />
103. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-7718397360818401475?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.furryfeet.tv/cotswolds/venue_video.php?footprint=548' title='UK BigCats Rick Minter Interview'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7718397360818401475?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7718397360818401475?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/01/cotswold-tv-presents-cotswold-tv.html' title='UK BigCats Rick Minter Interview'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pV8YZm3ylp0/Tw1mG3dTqxI/AAAAAAAABdM/flCWvCc-MBI/s72-c/cotswold.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEYHRHc8eCp7ImA9WhRVEEs.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-1907331805251648955</id><published>2012-01-08T14:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T14:35:35.970-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-08T14:35:35.970-08:00</app:edited><title>Panicked leopard goes on the attack</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tgc_4dLX8ko/TwoZ56KQ5CI/AAAAAAAABc4/hyuMnUBI3Iw/s1600/art-leopard1-420x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tgc_4dLX8ko/TwoZ56KQ5CI/AAAAAAAABc4/hyuMnUBI3Iw/s320/art-leopard1-420x0.jpg" width="257" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLZDUvuXf70/TwoZ-MMqmbI/AAAAAAAABdA/RVylSSkuZ44/s1600/leopard+on+mat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="198" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLZDUvuXf70/TwoZ-MMqmbI/AAAAAAAABdA/RVylSSkuZ44/s320/leopard+on+mat.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
104. A man has had part of his scalp ripped off by a wild leopard, which became panicked and attacked four people when it walked into a bustling residential area in India.<br />
105. The fully-grown leopard set upon the group when it walked into a house in a busy neighbourhood of Guwahati, a large city in north east India.<br />
106. Dramatic photos show the leopard lashing out at a man, identified by Indian media as a cook named Hari, whose scalp is severely cut as he tries to fend off the animal.<br />
107. One man managed to shut the leopard inside the house before forest officials came to sedate it, The Daily Mail reported.<br />
108. Hari was taken to hospital for injuries to his head and face, while the leopard was taken to a zoo for observation.<br />
109. "We believe the cat strayed into the area from a nearby hillock, maybe in search of food," a forest department official said.Tranquilised ... the leopard was taken to a zoo.<br />
110. Thousands of people gathered in the streets to catch a glimpse of the leopard, which only made the animal more anxious, Yahoo News India reported.<br />
111. Animal workers took 45 minutes and three shots to tranquilise the animal.<br />
112. "Our people need to be sensitised," said Surajit Dutta, director of the Kaziranga National Park.<br />
113. "You traumatise an animal like this and it will attack. You let it pass, while informing us, and it normally will. We can then get the situation under control as our people are trained to do this."<br />
114. Guwahati is close to the dense Garbhanga Forest.<br />
115. <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/panicked-leopard-goes-on-the-attack-after-walking-into-house-20120109-1pqnr.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">source</span></a><br />
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117. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-1907331805251648955?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/panicked-leopard-goes-on-the-attack-after-walking-into-house-20120109-1pqnr.html' title='Panicked leopard goes on the attack'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/1907331805251648955?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/1907331805251648955?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/01/panicked-leopard-goes-on-attack.html' title='Panicked leopard goes on the attack'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tgc_4dLX8ko/TwoZ56KQ5CI/AAAAAAAABc4/hyuMnUBI3Iw/s72-c/art-leopard1-420x0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DE4CQHY_eyp7ImA9WhRVFEw.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-7949911361390908579</id><published>2012-01-05T16:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T17:09:21.843-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-12T17:09:21.843-08:00</app:edited><title>An Introduction to Cryptozoology!</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Macquarie Community College 2012&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
118. <b><br />
119. </b><br />
120. <b>Lets Look At Cryptozoology!</b><br />
121. <b>DANIEL WHITE BSc (Hons) PhD</b><br />
122. <b>Course No: 21HM068</b><br />
123. <b>Ever wondered what that was that went bump in the night? Seen something out of the corner of your eye and no one believes you? Don’t worry - you are not alone. Cryptozoology is the study of animals whose existence has not been proven scientifically yet! Cryptozoology covers the serious science of identifying new species such as the Coelacanth to chasing the Yowie in the Australian outback. In this course we will be shining a torch on some of the creatures that live on the fringes of science as well as introducing you to some of the characters that hunt them and the methods they use.</b><br />
124. <b>Course Outline</b><br />
125. <b>1. The scientific method and Cryptozoology: Case study of the Coelacanth. 2. Hairy Hominids: Bigfoot, Yetis and other long distance cousins in need of a shave.</b><br />
126. <b>3. The one that got away: Lake monsters. 4. You aren’t from around here: displaced populations of big cats and other lost travellers. 5. The recent arrivals: Chubacabra, Mothman, the Hellbeast of New York and more. 6. The unknown Australians: The Outback Dragon, Australian panthers and lions, Thylacines and</b><br />
127. <b>more.</b><br />
128. <b>Planned Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, students should be able to:</b><br />
129. <b>1. 2. 3. 4.</b><br />
130. <b>Describe the history of cryptozology and recent developments. Be able to use the scientific method to critical examine evidence proposed for cryptids existence. Identify the main cryptids and the evidence proposed for their existence. Be able to discuss some of the key cryptids of the Australia.</b><br />
131. <b>About the Tutor</b><br />
132. <b>Daniel White has a BSc from James Cook University where he majored in animal behaviour. Further, he obtained a PhD for field research on the social behaviour of monkeys in the People’s Republic of China. He completed post-doctoral training at the Mannheimer Foundation in the USA working on personality types and chronic diseases in Rhesus macaques. At present he is on sabbatical writing up research papers and completing a Graduate Diploma in Psychology.</b><br />
133. &lt;b&gt;Course is &lt;a href="http://www.weasydney.com.au/index.php?action=course&amp;amp;course_action=detail&amp;amp;code=21HM068&amp;amp;search=1&amp;amp;keyword=cryptozoology"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-7949911361390908579?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7949911361390908579?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/7949911361390908579?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2012/01/introduction-to-cryptozoology.html' title='An Introduction to Cryptozoology!'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CUYMRH89eSp7ImA9WhRWEkw.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-5871069306588011496</id><published>2011-12-29T18:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T18:46:25.161-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-29T18:46:25.161-08:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='A current affair and australian big cats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='victorian bigcats'/><title>OLD SILENT NIGHT</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;An ode to Australian Big Cats.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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136. <b>In the ranges black he walks by night</b><br />
137. <b>But few have seen old silent night</b><br />
138. <b>Down the stoney path puma makes his way</b><br />
139. <b>He`ll feed the night and sleep by day</b><br />
140. <b>They came from far to our native land</b><br />
141. <b>Now they roam ranges of granite and sand</b><br />
142. <b>But few have seen him walk by night</b><br />
143. <b>The big ghostly cat, that old silent night.</b><br />
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146. &lt;b&gt;S.Michael (C)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-5871069306588011496?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/5871069306588011496?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/5871069306588011496?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/12/old-silent-night.html' title='OLD SILENT NIGHT'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DUAMRnozfip7ImA9WhRXFk4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-6481600586841079013</id><published>2011-12-23T02:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T02:56:27.486-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-23T02:56:27.486-08:00</app:edited><title></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g7H08EEgvrw/Tu8E7w-QcFI/AAAAAAAABbc/xiOC5C8XQOc/s1600/mp%2560s+2+debate+cat+mystery+su+times+27.4.79.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g7H08EEgvrw/Tu8E7w-QcFI/AAAAAAAABbc/xiOC5C8XQOc/s320/mp%2560s+2+debate+cat+mystery+su+times+27.4.79.jpg" width="202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-6692007622239725733?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6692007622239725733?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6692007622239725733?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/12/western-australian-mps-to-debate-cat.html' title='Western Australian MP`s To Debate Cat Mystery 1979'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g7H08EEgvrw/Tu8E7w-QcFI/AAAAAAAABbc/xiOC5C8XQOc/s72-c/mp%2560s+2+debate+cat+mystery+su+times+27.4.79.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEUDRX86fCp7ImA9WhRXEEQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-8821866131293763533</id><published>2011-12-16T20:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T20:31:14.114-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-16T20:31:14.114-08:00</app:edited><title>mystery goat killer-nsw</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Thanks to Jayce and Lauren&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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148. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="157" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3DWodIDxPaA" width="280"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-8821866131293763533?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/8821866131293763533?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/8821866131293763533?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/12/mystery-goat-killer-nsw.html' title='mystery goat killer-nsw'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/3DWodIDxPaA/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DkYAR3k-fyp7ImA9WhRQGUQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-2762159270728133308</id><published>2011-12-15T15:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T16:09:06.757-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-15T16:09:06.757-08:00</app:edited><title>Big Cats: Facing Britain's Wild Predators</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Rick Minter, one of the world leading experts on the bigcat phenomena in the UK has produced an amazing looking book on his research.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
149. <b>This is a must have for mystery bigcat fans.!<br />
150. Get it <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849950423/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bigoutdoorliv-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1849950423"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a></b><br />
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152. <div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx250084813-10112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><i><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;">“A definitive account of a topic which has gripped the public imagination for more than three decades.<span class="ecx468431619-14112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-indent: 0px !important;">     </span></span>Rick Minter is a man not given to hyperbole. He gives the intriguing subject of big cats a thoroughly considered examination. While he is one of those who believes such animals are living in the wild in this country, he is not afraid to look at and listen to all the evidence with a forensic and sceptical eye and ear.”</span><span class="ecx906322010-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;">  </span></i></span></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx906322010-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><b>Simon Trump, Sunday Times journalist</b></span></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-indent: 0px !important;"><br />
153. </div><div class="ecxMsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx906322010-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx640504712-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx468431619-14112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx187473922-06122011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><i>"Fascinating and thought provoking"</i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx906322010-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx640504712-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx468431619-14112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx187473922-06122011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><b>Hampshire Magazine<i> </i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-indent: 0px !important;"><br />
154. </div><div class="ecxMsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx906322010-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx640504712-11112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="ecx468431619-14112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><i>"Weaves a fascinating story around British sightings of these fearsome predators, without resorting to sensationalism".</i></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"></span><br />
155. <div style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><b><span style="text-indent: 0px !important;">Stephen Moss</span><span class="ecx468431619-14112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="text-indent: 0px !important;">, former Springwatch TV producer</span><span class="ecx375414109-30112011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: small; text-indent: 0px !important;"><em style="text-indent: 0px !important;">  </em></span></span></span></b></span></span></div><br />
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160. &lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849950423/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=bigoutdoorliv-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1849950423" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efIVRGtZqLs/TuqGdZWsjRI/AAAAAAAABbU/cyb3eNNwac4/s1600/51-KkMpfmEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bigoutdoorliv-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=1849950423" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-2762159270728133308?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849950423/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bigoutdoorliv-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1849950423' title='Big Cats: Facing Britain&apos;s Wild Predators'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/2762159270728133308?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/2762159270728133308?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/12/rick-minter-one-of-world-leading.html' title='Big Cats: Facing Britain&apos;s Wild Predators'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efIVRGtZqLs/TuqGdZWsjRI/AAAAAAAABbU/cyb3eNNwac4/s72-c/51-KkMpfmEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;C0YGSH49fyp7ImA9WhRQE0Q.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-584403181018947168</id><published>2011-12-08T16:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-08T16:38:49.067-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-08T16:38:49.067-08:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uk big cats'/><title>UK Big Cats</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Rick Minter, the UK big cat expert is talking &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00lyl7k/Faye_Hatcher_Gloucestershire_big_cat/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, just slide the bar along to the following times.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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162. <div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; text-indent: 0px !important;"><b><span class="ecx812311718-08122011" style="text-indent: 0px !important;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-indent: 0px !important;">14.00 mins   </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">43.30  </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">53.30   </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">107.30   </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">2.09.30</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; text-indent: 0px !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
163. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-584403181018947168?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00lyl7k/Faye_Hatcher_Gloucestershire_big_cat/' title='UK Big Cats'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/584403181018947168?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/584403181018947168?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/12/uk-big-cats.html' title='UK Big Cats'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;AkABSH0zeip7ImA9WhRREE8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-2635714120409937331</id><published>2011-11-22T22:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T22:12:39.382-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-11-22T22:12:39.382-08:00</app:edited><title>South Australian Cats</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
164. <div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Just wanted to let you know, I was travelling in the back of our car with my daughter and a friend this past Saturday, November 19 2011 at around 10.00am.  My husband was driving, and a friend was in the front passenger seat.  On the dirt road up ahead, the men in the front saw a what they thought was a dog, crossing the road, but quickly realized it was a big black cat.  About 5-10 minutes later, a car load of friends who were behind us caught up.  We pulled over and they told us they were turning back as they had seen a panther cross directly in front of them (it must have crossed back after we saw it), before we even mentioned seeing anything.   We all turned back to see if we could spot it again.  2 adults in our car saw it and everyone in the 2<sup style="line-height: 15px;">nd</sup> car saw it (2 adults and 2 children).  A man living nearby who we mentioned it to said his neighbour came round recently saying he’d heard very strange screaming noises around 9.00pm -9.30pm the other night.  We are in the Lower South East of South Australia, and were driving at the back of XXXXXXXXX.  A co-worker of my husband’s said he’s seen it in the same area while out spotlighting.  I  was probably sceptical once, but not anymore. Also the man in the 2<sup style="line-height: 15px;">nd</sup> car said his wife (who wasn’t with us Saturday) had seen a panther but didn’t think anyone would believe her.</div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
165. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Cheers,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Lisa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-2635714120409937331?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/2635714120409937331?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/2635714120409937331?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/11/south-australian-cats.html' title='South Australian Cats'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEIBSHw-cSp7ImA9WhRTFk4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-5999093759687297218</id><published>2011-11-06T19:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T19:29:19.259-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-11-06T19:29:19.259-08:00</app:edited><title>Wild lion spotted in Australia's Northern Territory</title><content type='html'>Authorities in Darwin are on the lookout for a feral lioness, after three reports of a big cat being spotted crossing the Stuart Highway.&lt;br /&gt;
166. The sightings late Sunday night sparked a quick police search and a check at Crocodylus, a local wildlife park just  a few minutes from the scene.<br />
167. According to the NT News, three cars pulled over while the animal crossed the highway in front of them at Pinelands, a small suburb about 20km from Darwin.<br />
168. ''I often get reports of dingoes in the area, which are a similar colour but a completely different size,'' said a spokeswoman for NT Police.<br />
169. Police found no trace of the creature.<br />
170. Chief scientist at Crocodylus, Charlie Manolis, told AAP he took the sightings seriously, but both lions at the park were found to  be secure.<br />
171. He said that ''not in a gazillion years'' could a lion have  escaped its enclosure and then voluntarily returned and been present when checked.<br />
172. Manolis said because three different people had reported seeing a lion, it was likely something was roaming around."'Whether there is a large dog or a beastie out there that looks like a lion, we would like to find out any information about what  it really is,'' he said.<br />
173. Crocodylus is the only wildlife park in the Northern Territory that houses lions.<br />
174. &lt;a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/5921672/Wild-lion-spotted-in-Australias-Northern-Territory"&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-5999093759687297218?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/5921672/Wild-lion-spotted-in-Australias-Northern-Territory' title='Wild lion spotted in Australia&apos;s Northern Territory'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/5999093759687297218?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/5999093759687297218?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/11/wild-lion-spotted-in-australias.html' title='Wild lion spotted in Australia&apos;s Northern Territory'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CU4FRHg8fCp7ImA9WhRTFk8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-6376412196742622048</id><published>2011-11-06T15:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T15:58:35.674-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-11-06T15:58:35.674-08:00</app:edited><title>Stalked in NSW with baby</title><content type='html'>I'm trying to find somewhere to report my sighting/experience with a big black panther in NSW, near the town of #######, on ######## Creek.I have also notified big cats VIC. &lt;br /&gt;
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176. I'm 25 years old and I was travelling home with my new born baby (2 months old) and step daughter (3.5yrs) from ######## to my home, a property near ###### on 4 october 2011.  It was on dusk and my baby had a bad dose of wind, and was screaming terribly.  I could only pull over just before the turn off to ########## to tend to her.  <br />
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178. I left the engine on and lights on low beam. I had her outside the car, she was crying loudly.  Next minute I hear a loud thud and sticks and foliage breaking under heavy foot.  I've been in the bush often pig hunting, rock climbing and hiking with my partner who is a bush survival expert and knew this wasn't a pig or kangaroo or dog - it was way to heavy.  I heard more sticks breaking as something walked. I didn't know what it was but it wasn't something normal for the Australian bush.  Alarmed I jumped in the car and locked the doors.  My baby was still crying, I had her in my right arm.   My instincts were running hot.  I looked outside the windscreen and passenger side window at a black shadow moving back and forth through the grass but thought my eyes may be playing tricks on me with the fading light.  But then, a large black cat appeared (it must have cleared the fence) and was only about 2 meters from the car. It was long bodied and had a long curved tail with an unmistakable body and head of a large cat. It was so huge. My initial thought was 'that's a lion' - it was just so big, but it was black.  It walked to the front left diagonal of the car in a prow-like stance, but I became so afraid and shocked I dropped the handbrake and took-off. I drove with my baby in my arms, no seatbelt or anything just totally hyperventilating. I was in shock, I didn't expect to see that or have it come to me.  I was so frightened.  I don't get frightened hunting large boar or climbing cliffs but I was frightened now, to the core. Obviously my crying baby woke it and it was curious to see what it was.  I drove to a friend's farm and pulled in to calm down.  I called my partner who came there too. The difference with this experience is that it came to me.  I have since spoken with a few ###### locals and know a cocky who lives near ######## creek (same creek) that have seen large cats in this area.  I still have nightmares!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-6376412196742622048?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6376412196742622048?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6376412196742622048?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/11/stalked-in-nsw-with-baby.html' title='Stalked in NSW with baby'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEYDRHk4cSp7ImA9WhdaGUk.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-523353375243586701</id><published>2011-10-29T19:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T19:36:15.739-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-10-29T19:36:15.739-07:00</app:edited><title></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="280" height="172"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sZtR64bYjvg?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sZtR64bYjvg?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="280" height="172" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-523353375243586701?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/523353375243586701?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/523353375243586701?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/10/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DUcHR3s6fyp7ImA9WhdaGU4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-3643981672866021385</id><published>2011-10-29T18:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T18:10:36.517-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-10-29T18:10:36.517-07:00</app:edited><title>WA Cat or dog</title><content type='html'>WA Cat-Dog?&lt;br /&gt;
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182. <b>Thanks to Ira for this video and comments.!</b><br />
183. <b>If you have any thoughts on this then please post it on Ira`s youtube page or pm. </b><br />
184. <b>I thought it look dog like but The description of its movements and two of the prints looked odd.</b><br />
185. <b>The Youtube page is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2VAdcKvgFI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">here</span></a></b><br />
186. <br />
187. I told this story to Jaydo once and he's been bugging me for ages to put it up on the web, so here it is....<br />
188. A coupla years ago I was driving down a remote bush track doing some fishing exploring. Now I do a bit of travelling all round WA & Aus and much of it in pretty remote areas, like everyone I've heard the stories of big cat sightings and its something that I've always taken an interest in, its always in the back of your mind anyway...So here I am early one morning, just after sunrise, driving down this bush track in the middle of now where. We hit some pretty goods corrugations and I happened to ask the mate (who shall remain nameless to protect his gumbyness) I was travelling with if he would mind getting my video camera out and getting a few shots of the corrugations for the home video I usually make of my fishing trips.He got the camera out, took a bit of video and I said to him just leave the camera on for a bit in case there are some more good ones. The track was sorta random, okay in some spots but rough as in others, anyway the track came into a hard packed sand section and there is my mate with the camera in his lap switched on and rolling. We cruised on for a bit, I was prolly sitting on about 40ish and then all of a sudden bang there it was!<br />
189. The first time it came into our view it was actually in the air, a metre and a half off the ground in mid air, halfway through a leap! It hit the ground halfway across the road, took a bound and it was off into the bush quicker than you could say what the hell was that! It crossed the road directly in front of us maybe 20-30 metres away. <br />
190. Now I'll be totally honest and say that it all happened so fast that all I really saw was a big tan animal bound across in front of me! I didn't see the head or the tail, there was enough time to sorta see the main body and that was it, it was gone.<br />
191. We both looked at each other and said what the %$#@ was that?! I braked hard and stopped right where it went off the track and we could see it running through the scrub to our left, "get out & get it on cam I yelled at my mate" as I was braking. The scrub was pretty high and before we even stopped I knew that the best chance I had of a clean shot was from an elevated position so as we stopped my mate got out and shot some video which looks like someone having a fit falling off a building, basically he tried to zoom right in and this bit of the footage is so shaky you cant see anything.<br />
192. So I've done the whole stop the car, jumped out and in one motion (yes I can still move when I wanna) I've jumped straight up onto the bonnet and onto the roof of the 4WD. My mate threw the camera up to me and I quickly zoomed out and managed to get a few seconds of it running off. I was hoping it would stop and turn around of course but it never did. The footage you see of it running off is from this elevated position.<br />
193. My gut feel initially was big cat, probably more just hope than anything but it was the right size and colour and the way it ran looked like a big cat but we both agreed we couldn't be sure positive as it never stopped or turned around and neither of us saw the tail or head.<br />
194. We easily found the spot where it jumped across the road and I got some good shots of the prints it left.<br />
195. To have any idea what it was I knew I'd have to show the tape to someone who knew about such things and I have a mate who has done a lifetime of hunting all around WA and he really knows his stuff. I showed him the tapes and he and his shooting buddy basically came to this conclusion. They say it was most likely a wild dog mainly because of the tracks it left, cats don't run with their claws out apparently. Do they come out when they jump but? I don't know...<br />
196. However they both did concede that they couldn't say wild dog 100% for sure and that there was a small amount of doubt from two things that were a bit unusual about it. They said in all their hunting days in WA (100 years experience) neither of them had ever seen a wild dog that colour and they had never seen a wild dog yet that was all one colour like that, they reckon normally they are blotched or mixed colours sort of thing. They are pretty sure from the tracks that it was a dog but. I'm not expert but I think they are probably right.<br />
197. Still it was a cool experience and it made me realise that even with a camera turned on in the car it happens so fast you've got to be so lucky to get it on video, if it did happen and the camera was turned off you'd be virtually no chance of getting it.<br />
198. So what do you think? Cat or dog?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-3643981672866021385?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/3643981672866021385?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/3643981672866021385?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/10/thanks-to-ira-for-this-video-and.html' title='WA Cat or dog'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;D0YNQHc8eip7ImA9WhdaGU4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-5486940928126542998</id><published>2011-10-19T21:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T17:39:51.972-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-10-29T17:39:51.972-07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='savage shadow david oreilly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david oreilly savage shadow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='savage shadow'/><title>Savage Shadow is OUT NOW</title><content type='html'>For decades farmers in the southwest of Australia have been convinced that there are cougars at large in the Australian bush, devastating wildlife and livestock. Hundreds of sightings have been documented in Western Australia, from as far north as Geraldton, south to Esperance and inland to Norseman. Australian journalist David O'Reilly became fascinated with what is known as perhaps Australia's greatest wildlife mystery during his time as the bureau chief of The Australian's Perth office. He interviewed scores of witnesses - farmers, wildlife experts, academics and bureaucrats - and wrote many stories about the hunt for the 'Cordering Cougar', as it became known, during the late 1970s and early 1980s. This book, now back in print for the first time in 30 years, is the culmination of that work.&lt;br /&gt;
199. <br />
200. The book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0646553135/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bigoutdoorliv-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0646553135"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">here </span></a> <br />
201. <br />
202. &lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://moourl.com/fna7m"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cOpQzbTKhFE/Tp-iKzWUDZI/AAAAAAAABWk/wryVLqrWyR0/s320/savage+shadow.jpg" width="223" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-5486940928126542998?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Savage-Shadow-David-OReilly-Michael-Williams/9780646553139' title='Savage Shadow is OUT NOW'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/5486940928126542998?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/5486940928126542998?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/10/savage-shadow-is-now-out.html' title='Savage Shadow is OUT NOW'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cOpQzbTKhFE/Tp-iKzWUDZI/AAAAAAAABWk/wryVLqrWyR0/s72-c/savage+shadow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;A0EMR307cCp7ImA9WhdbF04.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-8493910126745834583</id><published>2011-10-15T21:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-15T21:34:46.308-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-10-15T21:34:46.308-07:00</app:edited><title>Aussie lion tamer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--6747N6AUu0/TppevOaBbjI/AAAAAAAABWM/6NYQX_PWAas/s1600/125818-tamblyn-williams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--6747N6AUu0/TppevOaBbjI/AAAAAAAABWM/6NYQX_PWAas/s320/125818-tamblyn-williams.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;SHE had answered a call for volunteers but ended up doing the lion's share of the work.&lt;br /&gt;
203. <br />
204. When Tamblyn Williams moved to South Africa to study wildlife, she couldn't have imagined how close she would become to her subject.<br />
205. <br />
206. The 23-year-old from Caringbah was enlisted to take over the care of two lion cubs named Jagger and Adam after they were abandoned by their mother, who had been part of a breeding program.<br />
207. <br />
208. Ms Williams said she quickly settled into a routine, mixing formula and bottle-feeding them before eventually moving them on to solid food. She also monitored the youngsters as they met their developmental milestones, playing with them and taking them for daily walks.<br />
209. <br />
210. But her bond with the lions will be temporary: Their instincts mean she will not have the same access to them in the future.<br />
211. <br />
212. "As they grow older I will have to stop interacting with them as they are too strong to play with," she said.<br />
213. <br />
214. The separation from Ms Williams hasn't been easy for Jagger. The photograph of him sitting on her shoulders was taken when the cub was six months old.<br />
215. <br />
216. "Jagger is very unique in his personality and is quite mischievous and very playful. He is very loving and makes lots of cries for attention when I'm around," she said.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-8493910126745834583?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/aussie-lion-tamer-tamblyn-williams-takes-pride-in-her-work-in-south-africa/story-e6freuzi-1226167125405' title='Aussie lion tamer'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/8493910126745834583?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/8493910126745834583?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/10/aussie-lion-tamer.html' title='Aussie lion tamer'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--6747N6AUu0/TppevOaBbjI/AAAAAAAABWM/6NYQX_PWAas/s72-c/125818-tamblyn-williams.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkEFQXo7fyp7ImA9WhdbF08.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357693.post-6772775859206786735</id><published>2011-10-15T16:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-15T16:16:50.407-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-10-15T16:16:50.407-07:00</app:edited><title>John From North Carolina now QLD</title><content type='html'>Let me introduce myself and give you a bit of background.  My name is John ###### and I am originally from North Carolina in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
217. I spent my last ten years in North Carolina following up on sitings in North Carolina and in addition to seeing a large male cross the road in front of me, I came up on a kill, a deer that was ripped in half after having its throat slashed.  The half a deer was 5 meters up in a tree while the leopard was in a dead end with the other half.  I will never stop kicking myself in the ass for not going in after that leopard.<br />
218. <br />
219. Michael, in America we have records of these cats being killed as much as 300 years earlier.  While some of them could have come over on slave ships which is a bit improbable, I know that others were in America when it was attached to Africa, Europe and Asia.  It is a proven fact that a type of leopard exists in Africa and Asia and I believe in America, so my guess is being as adaptable a cat as the leopard is it is more or less native to Australia.<br />
220. <br />
221. As for being interbred with a cougar it is not likely.  I have stood at the base of a tree and had a 73 Kilo female cougar looking down on me.  While cougars have only 2 cubs at most and have only spots on their underside as immature adults or cubs, melanistic leopards are charcoal grey with black spots.  I also have had reports of individuals with 4 cubs, something only seen in leopards.<br />
222. <br />
223. I know I can not only photograph a big cat but I would like to take one alive, then there would be no arguement.  Having seen the reports of big cat sitings I believe the leopards are mainly in the Blue Mountains national park.  I would suggest in addition to doing a survey in the park for clawed trees and piles of dirt and sticks where it has covered its scat, to use dogs trained to track leopards.  I would also suggest using predator scent and live bait such as a young goat or lamb in a double cage so I could trap the leopard but spare the bait.<br />
224. <br />
225. Please advise me of your work in the area and share your thoughts with me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38357693-6772775859206786735?l=www.australianbigcats.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6772775859206786735?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38357693/posts/default/6772775859206786735?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.australianbigcats.com/2011/10/john-from-north-carolina-now-qld.html' title='John From North Carolina now QLD'/><author><name>mike</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18421307258970022315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>

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