Mysterie katten en andere vreemde beesten

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Unidentified creature stumps experts

It starts with Bill and Gayle Kurdian throwing out dried corn for the wildlife in their neck of the woods in eastern Randolph County, and an odd-looking creature taking them up on their hospitality early last winter.

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""Everybody thought I was crazy," said Kurdian, the vice president of Matlab in Asheboro.

But Kurdian, an avid outdoorsman, got proof.

He captured the animal on two frames of film on May 20, using a motion-sensing camera that his wife gave him for Christmas.



It's the second time this year that zoo curators have been called on to identify a strange animal sighted in the area.

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Sightings of large predator cats in the Australian bush have been dismissed as phantoms for more than 50 years. Now, for the first time, an investigation by the NSW government has concluded that it is likely there are, indeed, big cats out there.

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Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 10:49 schreef Rasing het volgende:
Ik heb ooit wel eens een zwarte panter rond zien lopen in Engeland (op tv dan he ), ik denk een ontsnapt exemplaar uit de dierentuin, of een huisdier dat vrijgelaten is toen de eigenaar een beetje schrok dat ie zo groot werd. Kan toch? Open-minded blijven, mensen

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 01:27 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:
Even over die grote katten in Australia, ik heb een topic geopend op een forum met Australische jagers en er zijn toch wel een aantal die zelf ook oa sporen hebben gezien en het niet uitsluiten dat ze er zijn

http://www.boardogs.org.a(...)wtopic&p=20335#20335

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Strange Animal Found in Elmendorf

A rancher in Elmendorf, southeast of San Antonio, found a strange creature attacking his livestock, and local animal experts say identifying it is a tough call.

Devin Macanally says he has lived on his ranch for 15 years and has never seen anything like it.





"It was eating mulberrys under a tree," he said.

It is a strange dog-looking creature with a blue color that he says began a killing spree. Devin first knew something was up when his chickens started disappearing. At one point, 35 were gone in just one day.

Macanally finally shot and killed the creature, and he was blown away at what he saw.

"First thing that came to my mind, is surely everybody's gonna think this is a chupacabra," he laughed. "But it's so odd because it has no hair."

At the nearby Deleon's Grocery and Market, customers come in to check out pictures of it. One woman says it is exactly how her grandmother described the dreaded chupacabra.

People at the San Antonio Zoo say they have not seen anything like it. Terry DeRosa with the zoo says at a feather-light 20 pounds, he thinks it might be a wild mexican dog.

"It may be one of the hairless dogs that perhaps you see in Mexico," he said.

Devin says he would like to know for sure. He says he is hoping someone can help identify it, possibly by DNA.

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 02:01 schreef MUUS het volgende:

Ik vind het meer op een hertje lijken.

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 02:07 schreef MUUS het volgende:

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Ja, nou, *sputter*, wie zegt dat de chupacabra geen kale herthondachtigs iets is!

Bambi does Cujo. Zoiets.

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 02:53 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:

ze hebben toen specialisten uit Canada naar de UK gevlogen om naar zijn bewijs te kijken en het bleken allemaal foto's van hondenbeten en gewone kattenuitwerpselen te zijn.

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Op vrijdag 30 juli 2004 00:30 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:

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Dat zijn geen foto's hoor van lynxen en luipaarden

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Zoals ik al zei, ongeacht of die beesten er zitten (en het lijkt van niet, iniedergeval niet op grote schaal) deze organisatie is wellicht niet de beste om dit te onderzoeken.

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Family captures 'big cat' on film

There has been yet another suspected sighting of a so-called "big cat" in a remote area of Wales.
The latest claim of a wild beast roaming farmland is backed up with home video footage shot by a holidaymaker from the Midlands.

It shows what appears to be a black cat-like creature creeping stealthily through undergrowth.

A Welsh Assembly Government investigation concluded that the animal was just a domestic moggy, but big cat experts are keeping an open mind.

Nevertheless, the holidaymaker who captured the pictures on tape is convinced his recording illustrates something other than a domestic cat.

David Bacon and his family, from Wolverhampton, were holidaying in Foel, near Welshpool, when he made the discovery.

"I take a keen interest in wildlife and I'm always peering through binoculars at things when I'm in Wales," he said.

"But on this occasion I spotted something that looked like a big cat.

"My first instinct was that the creature was a panther because it was so black.

"We were just 600 yards away from it and there's no way it was just a large domestic moggy. The cat was walking through some bracken and undergrowth.



"My son suggested it was a puma but it was too black for a puma.

"My other son ran across to us with higher strength binoculars and he thought it was a big cat too."

Mr Bacon added: "I did manage to get a shot of the cat although it was only 10 seconds long," he said.

"We're convinced it was a big cat and definitely not a large tom cat.

BBC