Australian Big Cats

Thanks to Rick Minter !!

Might be a jaguarundi ?..or Just f.cattus.. :)

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.
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Jaguarundi Below

Great Interview with Rick Minter Talking about his new book.!

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.
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.
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.
One man managed to shut the leopard inside the house before forest officials came to sedate it, The Daily Mail reported.
Hari was taken to hospital for injuries to his head and face, while the leopard was taken to a zoo for observation.
"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.
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.
Animal workers took 45 minutes and three shots to tranquilise the animal.
"Our people need to be sensitised," said Surajit Dutta, director of the Kaziranga National Park.
"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."
Guwahati is close to the dense Garbhanga Forest.
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Macquarie Community College 2012


Lets Look At Cryptozoology!
DANIEL WHITE BSc (Hons) PhD
Course No: 21HM068
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.
Course Outline
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.
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
more.
Planned Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. 2. 3. 4.
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.
About the Tutor
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.
Course is here

An ode to Australian Big Cats.


In the ranges black he walks by night
But few have seen old silent night
Down the stoney path puma makes his way
He`ll feed the night and sleep by day
They came from far to our native land
Now they roam ranges of granite and sand
But few have seen him walk by night
The big ghostly cat, that old silent night.


S.Michael (C)