BCC EP:76 Panthera Celtica, Cougar Caledonia

Big Cat Conversations

English - June 05, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Carole from Aberdeenshire was feeding farm feral cats in the 1990s when a sleek black panther turned up. In the following weeks she had four sightings of two different large black cats in the area, and took a photo which resulted in a distant blob. She has received many reports of similar cats in the region and has investigated carcasses of their suspected prey. She has also seen “Kellas cats” and thinks these could represent a mutant felis cat which roams parts of Britain.

Word of the week: ailurophilia

5 June 2022