Big Cats, myth or real ?

Cats can get quite big as you can see here, a mate in the Department of Conservation says they regularly shoot cats at 10kg.

TD

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1F0JShOu4]Mystery Big Cat Sighting South Island NZ.mp4 - YouTube[/ame]

That's a big kitty, but it still has a very domestic cat like walk.
Lots of the posts in this feature references to a very specific gait like walk.
Not what you associate with house cats.

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Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

That's a big kitty, but it still has a very domestic cat like walk.
Lots of the posts in this feature references to a very specific gait like walk.
Not what you associate with house cats.

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yeah , this thing also walks just like a domestic cat

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ9It3PDsMo]Black Panther - YouTube[/ame]

Yes, all cats will walk in a similar manner, I'm not denying it was a cat :p
But as is to be expected with a larger size animal, big cats will move more in a single step than a smaller cat.
As such, when smaller cats are moving quickly but not running, they seem to have a sort of "scurry" as can be witnessed in the video.

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Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

That's a big kitty, but it still has a very domestic cat like walk.
Lots of the posts in this feature references to a very specific gait like walk.
Not what you associate with house cats.

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Yea I agree, this is just a big cat, as did my mate in the DoC.

There have been other poor quality pics of one down south but again who would know... not in NZ I think but in Aus, maybe...
If you watch any nature program and see the trouble they have filming snow leopards for example and they have a good idea were to look for them then maybe they can go un-noticed. As to the breeding it's anyone's guess.
Once someone shoots one then we'll know.

TD

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Originally Posted by goingbush

nope, but it is exactly here -26.31322, 143.16599 if anyone wants to do same.

here is a link to the hires photo straight from the camera, that tooth does look rotten.

http://goingbush.com/images/P4210021.JPG exif gps data is slightly off, but above gps location is within a meter or so

Epic_Dragon, thanks, won't mention that to Val but will keep the door on the van closed at night , still plenty of camping yet to do, blog = Going Bush

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Did anyone else Google the coordinates and find it was of the coast of Japan?
I must say i'm impressed with your landy, that is truly off road:p

TD

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Originally Posted by TDman

Did anyone else Google the coordinates and find it was of the coast of Japan?
I must say i'm impressed with your landy, that is truly off road:p

TD

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I googled them and got a location in South West Queensland. Not sure where Google was trying to send you...:D

Well when I was a kid 2 mates and I were riding down cabbage tree rd grosevale and we see a whole heap of cars pulled up out the front of an old cockys farm and people everywhere (all locals), my buddy sees his dads mate and asked what's going on and the bloke said something and pointed to a tree 50m from the fence line, my mate comes back over and says they are trying to work out what dragged the sheep up into the tree, needless to say when we looked up into the tree our jaws hit the ground! About 1/3 of the way up the tree (huge gum) there was a mauled sheep! Well the local vet came and inspected the tree the sheep and the area around the tree and he said it was definatly a cat there was no argueing that, his explanation was something along the lines of well survival of the fittest/evolution/freaks of nature type of thing, personally I've seen some pretty big ferals lurking around different places (always when I don't have a rifle!!) and I've never had a decent point to judge their size off, but I can tell you I wouldn't want to be much closer then I was with out some type of weapon! Now at best guesstimate I would say some of the bigger ones I've seen are about the size of a koolie or small kelpie, now the bigger of them was a patchy colour grey, browns and blacks and he was prowling down a fence line about 130-150m from me, another one that was a little smaller was having a drink at a dam and was jet black when my cousin and I were walking back to get the tractor to drag the paddock bashed out of a hole and we were walking out of the woods into the paddock when my cousin put his hand on my chest to stop me and said take a look at that would ya and we sat there for 5 mins watching this cat have a drink and walk around then his ears pricked up and he dissapeard..... Now I would love to beleave that they were more then over grown ferals but I don't think they were more then that but I can tell you now that none of the cats I've seen would be able to lug a sheep up a tree!

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Originally Posted by disco2_dan

Well when I was a kid 2 mates and I were riding down cabbage tree rd grosevale and we see a whole heap of cars pulled up out the front of an old cockys farm and people everywhere (all locals), my buddy sees his dads mate and asked what's going on and the bloke said something and pointed to a tree 50m from the fence line, my mate comes back over and says they are trying to work out what dragged the sheep up into the tree, needless to say when we looked up into the tree our jaws hit the ground! About 1/3 of the way up the tree (huge gum) there was a mauled sheep! Well the local vet came and inspected the tree the sheep and the area around the tree and he said it was definatly a cat there was no argueing that, his explanation was something along the lines of well survival of the fittest/evolution/freaks of nature type of thing, personally I've seen some pretty big ferals lurking around different places (always when I don't have a rifle!!) and I've never had a decent point to judge their size off, but I can tell you I wouldn't want to be much closer then I was with out some type of weapon! Now at best guesstimate I would say some of the bigger ones I've seen are about the size of a koolie or small kelpie, now the bigger of them was a patchy colour grey, browns and blacks and he was prowling down a fence line about 130-150m from me, another one that was a little smaller was having a drink at a dam and was jet black when my cousin and I were walking back to get the tractor to drag the paddock bashed out of a hole and we were walking out of the woods into the paddock when my cousin put his hand on my chest to stop me and said take a look at that would ya and we sat there for 5 mins watching this cat have a drink and walk around then his ears pricked up and he dissapeard..... Now I would love to beleave that they were more then over grown ferals but I don't think they were more then that but I can tell you now that none of the cats I've seen would be able to lug a sheep up a tree!

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Then there was that time me and a bunch of mates saw a yowie and drop-bear having a fight...

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

Then there was that time me and a bunch of mates saw a yowie and drop-bear having a fight...

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Did the drop bear win?