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Post by skywalker on Dec 22, 2010 23:23:32 GMT -6
For the past several decades at least there have been a number of reported sightings of large, wild cats raoming around Great Britain. Not just big kitty cats, but cougars, panthers and cheatahs. The British government naturally denies that they exist, but wher have we heard that before? Here is a video taken in July, 2009 by an off-duty Ministry of Defence Police officer. The animal was walking along a railway line in Helensburgh, Argyll... It looks real enough to me. These creatures have actually been reported since way back in the 1700's, and numerous reports have been made since then, especially in recent decades. Not only have the cats been seen and photographed, but livestock have been attacked and killed also. I would say that there pretty much is little doubt that these cats do exist, the question is how did a bunch of jungle cats get on Great Britain?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2010 15:07:20 GMT -6
Maybe a mated pair escaped from a local zoo, or perhaps a mated pair from a private owner... and went wild... That's how the population of rabbits ended up in Australia, when two pets escaped. Now the rabbits are everywhere. Or were they hares? ~shrug~
That's also how caribou appeared in Alaska, because they are not native to the North American continent. The caribou were brought over as livestock from the Russians during the time that Alaska was owned by them. Some of them escaped and started breeding in the wild. Domesticated caribou are called "Reindeer", the same dudes/dudettes who pull Santa's sleigh. The Russians used them as beasts of burden (pulling sleds and buggys), for milk and for meat. Now they are everywhere in Northern and Interior Alaska, and they are the main reason why congress doesn't want to drill in ANWR... because they want to protect the fragile "Wildlife" which isn't even native here.
Mustangs also. Horses are not native to this continent either, and yet there are wild Mustangs running around in some states.
Who knows sky. They found remains of African elephants in Asia because the Persians used to ride them around.
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Post by skywalker on Dec 28, 2010 17:33:05 GMT -6
Very true, Lorelei. There are all kinds of ways they could have gotten there. Ships have been going back and forth across the Atlantic for more than five centuries now and they very easily could have carried a few jungle cats back with them. I think it is pretty indisputable that they are definitely there though.
The legend of the big cats in Britain has existed for a long time and has now been demonstrated to be true. It makes me wonder what other mythical legends might also be true.
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Dec 28, 2010 17:42:36 GMT -6
Maybe a mated pair escaped from a local zoo, or perhaps a mated pair from a private owner... and went wild... That's how the population of rabbits ended up in Australia, when two pets escaped. Now the rabbits are everywhere. Or were they hares? ~shrug~ That's also how caribou appeared in Alaska, because they are not native to the North American continent. The caribou were brought over as livestock from the Russians during the time that Alaska was owned by them. Some of them escaped and started breeding in the wild. Domesticated caribou are called "Reindeer", the same dudes/dudettes who pull Santa's sleigh. The Russians used them as beasts of burden (pulling sleds and buggys), for milk and for meat. Now they are everywhere in Northern and Interior Alaska, and they are the main reason why congress doesn't want to drill in ANWR... because they want to protect the fragile "Wildlife" which isn't even native here. Mustangs also. Horses are not native to this continent either, and yet there are wild Mustangs running around in some states. Who knows sky. They found remains of African elephants in Asia because the Persians used to ride them around. There are other non-native species that have immigrated to various places over the years, and some of them are now considered to be indigenous animals. The Dingos in Australia are now considered to be a unique species but were originally descended from domesticated dogs that were taken there from Asia thousands of years ago. Here in Texas, the armadillo is practically the Texas state animal, yet they only arrived here from South America within the past century. Fire ants only made it to the United States in the 1970s...same thing with killer bees. There are even wild monkeys living in Florida because they escaped from a movie company back when they were filming Tarzan in the 1950s. There is all kinds of weird stuff showing up where it shouldn't be.
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