Neil Arnold, still (in our opinion) Britain's leading big cat researcher, has written asking us to alert bloggo readers to "the recent 'Palace Puma' farce, over at my http://www.beastsoflondon.blogspot.com/ and http://www.kentbigcats.blogspot.com/ websites".
Having just taken a quick look, the whole affair is indeed farcical, but has many aspects of interest to those of us who study the sociology of cryptozoology. As Neil writes:
When are the local newspapers going to finally send out a reporter who for once, looks into 'his' research rather than completely sensationalising? Of course, the press are known for making mountains out of mole-hills, but why do this when the facts of the matter are already stranger than the fiction they are trying to create? Take, for example, the case of the 'Palace Puma' - a cat which was never a puma in the first place, and wasn't exactly seen at Crystal Palace.
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