Tiger hunt underway in France

[zwiebel]

'Authorities initially claimed it was a tiger but subsequent investigations on the animal's tracks showed it was probably much less dangerous.

Experts from the national hunting and wildlife office and a nearby big cat park said: "We can exclude the presence of an animal from the tiger species."

They added though that "the feline is still being hunted".

"It's between a domestic cat and a bigger feline," said Eric Hansen from the national hunting and wildlife office ONCFS.'

http://news.yahoo.com/search-steppe...-083638262.html;_ylt=AwrBEiS6NGZUf24A2x7QtDMD

 

[wfgodot]

I'm'a be disappointed if this is just some mangy mountain lion and not le chat grande.

 

[zwiebel]

Lol, comments under that article I just posted: Someone's suggesting it's a Savannah cat, which I've never heard of, and someone else thinks it's a freakin bobcat!'

I think the animal in the video seems too smooth for a bobcat also though?

 

[SCHMAE]

Savannahs are nowhere near that size !

 

[nothingnew]

If no one has picked liger or tigon then I'll throw that out there, just in case!

 

[wfgodot]

And meanwhile on the Cat Channel, as we await word from France,

Woman becomes the 1st person in the world to be clawed to
death by a tiger… which didn’t bite her because it had no teeth

 

[LaborDayRN]

I'm'a be disappointed if this is just some mangy mountain lion and not le chat grande.

Mangy? :slapfight: Our mountain lions are beautiful! :floorlaugh:

 

[wfgodot]

Mangy? :slapfight: Our mountain lions are beautiful! :floorlaugh:

Even my mangy li'l ol' county has its resident mountain lion, lol.

 

[anya]

Lol, comments under that article I just posted: Someone's suggesting it's a Savannah cat, which I've never heard of, and someone else thinks it's a freakin bobcat!'

I think the animal in the video seems too smooth for a bobcat also though?

Bobcats don't have long tails like this though! [emoji33]


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[anya]

A liger .... [emoji39]


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[montana_16]

I just now saw the footage of the animal and my first thought, also, was it looked like a mountain lion. Mountain lions are also gorgeous animals , but can can catch a person by surprise and kill them. And pets.

This will be interesting to find out what it really is when they ( hopefully) find it. And I wish in the articles they would quit calling it a beast. It's just an animal trying to figure out what to do. But it will get hungry and follow its natural instincts. So hope they can find it quick and tranquilize it.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Interesting about the reintroduction of the lynx into France.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wild-cat-on-loose-near-disneyland-paris-not-a-tiger-1.2834895

One theory is that the mystery cat could be a lynx — the wild cat once omnipresent in France before being hunted out of existence. It was reintroduced in the 1970s, according to wildlife conservation group Ferus.

A 2003 survey by the National Office for Hunting and Wildlife estimated France's lynx population at about 170, located in mountainous areas of eastern France and the Alps. But the nearest known habitat, the Vosges Mountains, is 350 kilometres away from where the creature was spotted Thursday.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Eurasian lynx

BUT.....they have a short tail.

 

[XXXXXXXX]

Lol, comments under that article I just posted: Someone's suggesting it's a Savannah cat, which I've never heard of

Savannah cats are very real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_cat

All of the other links I found are for breeders selling Savannah's. If you want more info, google it.

 

[wfgodot]

Perhaps a wampus cat.

 

[zwiebel]

The Savannah cats are very beautiful but very distinctive with those big ears, which the French tigon/liger whatever, doesn't seem to have.

As for the Wampus - amazing that so many schools have adopted the symbol of a mythical creature that's a portent of doom!

 

[Morag]

Je pensais avoir vu un chat chatte!

 

[wfgodot]

What's French for "Panic at Eurodisney as Huge Wildcat Invades Grounds, Chases Tourists Through Park"?

 

[Morag]

What's French for "Panic at Eurodisney as Huge Wildcat Invades Grounds, Chases Tourists Through Park"?

"Panique à Eurodisney aussi énorme Wildcat envahit Grounds, chenillards Day Trippers"

 

[wfgodot]

Now I can't keep myself from rewriting this very English classic with new lyrics (involving....wait for it....Panique à Eurodisney due to....big cats!) and sung by some contemporary version of Serge Gainsbourg.