SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Cougar/Mt. Lion/ Florida panther confirmation? Update click link Bob cat
Page 1 2 3 
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Cougar/Mt. Lion/ Florida panther confirmation? Update click link Bob cat Login/Join 
Member
Picture of rvbgtr
posted Hide Post
Saw one of those in Osceola National Forrest just south of the Fla / Ga state line heading to a tree stand early in the morning about 20 years ago. First thought was: "That's a big bobcat." Second thought: "Why is that tail so long." Then it dawned on me that it was a panther or cougar. I'd heard that e several cougars released in the area years ago as part of a repopulation effort.
 
Posts: 798 | Location: Treasure Coast, FL | Registered: June 09, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Truth Wins
Picture of Micropterus
posted Hide Post
I initially thought it was a cougar, too. But after looking at other photos, I think it's a bobcat, now, too. The lack of body coloration is a explained by subtle coloration and taking a picture with IR flash. It is just not going to capture subtle color variations. Also, the lanky appearance is explained by a thinner southern coat of fur.



_____________
"I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau
 
Posts: 4285 | Location: In The Swamp | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
is circumspective
Picture of vinnybass
posted Hide Post
Yeah, I gotta change my mind too, from the scale that feeder provides. I judged it by the ears, but they may not have photographed clearly. The hind quarters don't seem to have that bobcat rise, but that may also be the perspective of the photo.



"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
 
Posts: 5582 | Location: Las Vegas, NV. | Registered: May 30, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Haveme1or2
posted Hide Post
I see pointy ears and a chin.
Bobcat....
 
Posts: 1002 | Location: Mint Hill NC | Registered: November 26, 2016Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata Page 1 2 3  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Cougar/Mt. Lion/ Florida panther confirmation? Update click link Bob cat

© SIGforum 2024