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Anonymous
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May01/0,4670,PantherSighting,00.html

I just saw this on my local news (ABC) on TV and pulled this article off the intarwebs. What does the experts of /an/ suspect this mysterious animal could be? Pic semirelated.
>> Anonymous
Trenton is an hour away from me. Well, I know were I'll be camping this weekend.

I wouldn't be surprised if its a jaguar There's been people in NJ who have had big cats and got loose before. One of my buddies was telling me not to long ago that a leopard got loose and they shot it, but I don't think it was near Trenton.
>> Anonymous
Crazy.. Similar story here in WI. I bet it's aliens from Sirius. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=596030
>> Anonymous
>>86755
i thought cougars were suppose to be semi-common southwest?

christ.
you can't kill off all the predators in the US. if someone gets killed, congrats. welcome to the circle of life and life itself. its not a reason to go around killing them off.
even if they don't attack people, they still normally get killed if they are seen in common-people areas.
>> Anonymous
Well, that picture at least is def. a black leopard.
>> Anonymous
The spotted panther, the green lion, the crow's beak blue as lead, these shall appear.
>> Kitten
>>88154
No, those are distinctly JAGUAR spots. Besides, Leopards are only found in Asia and Africa, whereas Jaguars are fairly common in Central and South America, and known to occurr in parts of north america.
>> Anonymous
Too lazy to read the article, but this made me think of this documentary I watched once about wild big cat sightings in Britain. People explained the sightings by saying that these cats are the descendants of kept animals abandoned after the fall of the Roman empire.

Also, anyone seen the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill? It's about a flock of south American parrots that live in San Francisco. The parrots all came from people's ex-pets. Animals escape from homes and zoos and stuff and breed and live in the wild all the time.
>> Anonymous
Yup, that's a jaguar. The rosettes are way too big to be a leopard.

Crazily enough, there's the same story from Lithgow, Australia. No chance for lost wanderers or Roman left overs there. I think a circus escapee is the most common explaination.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Hunt-for-the-black-panther/2005/02/26/1109180165887.html
>> Anonymous
>>88334
There's a growing body of evidence that the big cats of Australia are actually descendants of housecats gone feral. Lack of competition for prey has allowed "giant" cats to appear and thrive.