You guys are funny.
The pics I linked to were easy to find but in the original series you could clearly see the Bobbed Tail and markings of a Bobcat while stalking and the series showed the attack through the death of the sheep, and it was taken in the Sierra Nevada Mtn. by a game biologist who was studying the decline of the herd.
The first is also clearly a Bobcat and that's a Whitetail. So when some of you are saying that Bobcats are small I wonder.
Oh and one more to think about. They've now documented the Jaguar is back in Arizona!
to be fair, the part of MO I'm talking about is Branson/Forsythe area which is 10 miles from the AR border. It's not unusual to see big cats or coyotes around our 120 acres.
thank you!!!!! i've seen enough of these things i would know. the one true give away is if you blow up the picture you can see two stripes behind the mouth........cougars do not have any kind of stripes on their bodies and are 99% of the time white behind the mouth, down the chest.
That particular census needs to be updated, though. We had a large population of Lions in the Black Hills, big enough that the Dept. of Wildlife introduced a harvesting season. They determined that the area of the Black Hills wasn't big enough to sustain a population this size. Lions were also decimating the imported population of Mountain Goats which is another reason the combination of departments called in trapping contractors to harvest.
I found two such massive leg traps just off of a public trail, returned them to the forest service which in turn notified the legal trapper through the engraved, required, and registered ID.