Hi guys,
Very excited to have had our first big cat sighting this afternoon!We were exploring the roads and 4wd trails around ###### in Victoria at about 530 this afternoon when we crested a hill to see a dark animal about 200m away, it looked big, it was side on and about the length of half the fire road
width. I'd estimate about 3 feet tall. It was black, looked right at us but as we got closer it turned and ran. It was far more slender than a dog, and ran like a cat - and very very fast! It went down the road and ducked off into the scrub.We hung around with the engine off in the hope that it would return, but of course it did not.We then looked up big cat sightings in xxxxxxx and were excited to find this was not the first one!I have the exact GPS coordinates of where we sighted it and hope to return.Do you know if anyone has had any luck in baiting a big cat (ie with meat)to return? We hope to be able to properly photograph it (as a keen amateurphotographer I have plenty of fast, long lenses) in the future. I'm not sure if they roam over a large area, or are likely to return to that spot.It seems the have been a number of sightings around dusk, as was ours.I notice many people are accused of being drunk or somewhat impaired when the sightings are made, we were neither. My partner is a Dr of Microbiology and Molecular Biology who works I'm animal health and I am the MD of a small
company with a background in engineering and physics.I hope this data can be of some use, if you have any tips for attracting and photographing such an animal, I'd love to hear them!
Cheers,
R
Game Camera Cat
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Scott McLaren game camera photos from "Australian Deer Hunter" April edition 2013.
Very interesting photo.!!
Please see the latest edition of Australian Deer Hunter Magazine.
I had previously used the photos in this post, without permission.
I would like to apologise to Australian Deer Hunter Magazine for not checking with them first before using the photos.!
Mike
Scott McLaren game camera photos from "Australian Deer Hunter" April edition 2013.
Very interesting photo.!!
Please see the latest edition of Australian Deer Hunter Magazine.
I had previously used the photos in this post, without permission.
I would like to apologise to Australian Deer Hunter Magazine for not checking with them first before using the photos.!
Mike
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We have now finally opened our own replicas and taxidermy business.
Museum of Comparative Zoology Australia.
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Museum of Comparative Zoology Australia.
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Brindabella Ranges Big Cat
About 25 years ago we were driving from Canberra across the Brindabella Ranges just above the valley at dusk. As we drove along the road near a pine forest for about a minute we were able to observe a very large cat trotting along one row of trees in from the edge of the forest.
As darkness was falling and the animal was some distance away we cannot be sure exactly what it was but all its movements and body shape indicated a large dark coloured cat. Possibly a puma, or leopard. I think of Jaguars as being a bit more solidly built than this animal appeared and it didn't have the body shape of a cheetah and was too small to be an adult lion or tiger. Its colouring appeared to be one solid colour with out stripes or spots.
It was an amazing sight and we stopped the car in awe and watched while it trotted over a bank and disappeared.
B.E
As darkness was falling and the animal was some distance away we cannot be sure exactly what it was but all its movements and body shape indicated a large dark coloured cat. Possibly a puma, or leopard. I think of Jaguars as being a bit more solidly built than this animal appeared and it didn't have the body shape of a cheetah and was too small to be an adult lion or tiger. Its colouring appeared to be one solid colour with out stripes or spots.
It was an amazing sight and we stopped the car in awe and watched while it trotted over a bank and disappeared.
B.E
Lorne Big Cat
A SHAKEN tourist returned only a short way into a walk to Erskine Falls near Lorne yesterday to report a big black cat sighting.
The man believed to be in his 20s was with his girlfriend about 2.5km into the Erskine Falls walk when he saw a black cat about 11.30am. "He looked quite shocked and quite terrified," a Lorne Visitor Information Centre spokeswoman said. His girlfriend told information centre staff she saw the tail of the animal before it went into bushes and believed it may have been the size of a large dog. She told staff she was unsure what the animal was and was happy to continue the walk while her partner decided to call it quits.
"He looked quite shaken by the experience," the spokeswoman said.. "He said he'd never heard the stories about the black cats before so he had no preconceptions." The track is known for its wildlife sightings but not usually of the puma variety.
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Beechworth Victoria Cat Sighting
Hi Mike
Just had an encounter with a big cat in beechworth. 29/01/2013. Time was round abouts 2:30 pm. Roughly 500 metres downstream from Kangaroo crossing. The critter was on the beechworth side. I was in the gully, 20-30 meters further downstream. My partner was in the car on the other side parked where we had driven down a track from the main track. we were there for 2 hours before she saw it. Staring at her from across the gully. It was in front of a large tree. It was about 4 metres back from the edge of the gully. It was 20 to 25 meters directly across from her. She locked eyes with it for 2 seconds and it bolted upstreamward. Her description matches a Panther. She described it as black, large, muscles, cat like. large head. Smooth black fur.Yellow eyes. Very large dog sized as far as size goes or easily the width of our car. No , didnt have time to get the phone n take a picture, nor as we were driving back quizing her on just what she has seen did I go up the gully to have a look around. The yellow eyes were the clincher, oh and the size of it. Her actual description had it as beautiful. Though dangerous looking. She then yelled out to me as it took off. I was totally unaware of it or anything larger then the 1 large grey spider I saw. On a side note our day at Bendigo was much better and seemed to have much more prospects then our time spent at Beechworth.
Victorian Hoax Photo
Its pathetic idiot season.
Which she sent to us.
What clever Kylie had actually done was go to a UK big cat site and taken a photo of her computer screen.
She wasted her own time and money ringing us several times..she appeared to have also forced her young son to lie on the phone to me to support her delusion/idiocy.
Well done Kylie.
Get off the dole and back on the thorazine and get a life..
Source of the stolen photo above came from HERE
Site revamp
The Australian Big Cats website has received a long overdue facelift, and now incorporates elements from the original book promotion website, which went the way of the Dodo (albeit temporarily) when its website host folded.
The site now incorporates the blog of big cat researcher Mike Williams and information about Australian Big Cats: An Unnatural History of Panthers and the reprinted Savage Shadow: The Search for the Australian Cougar by David O'Reilly.
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