I would not be at all surprised at the continuing survival of a Native British Lynx, and this museum find is indeed a breakthrough on that score (I would also not be surprised at the continuance of British elk and brown bear through the centuries but those are separate issues)
Lynx incidentally have disproportionatly large "Snowshoe" feet and so their tracks look like they must have been left by a much larger type of cat. And a Lynx is basically a "Normal" kind of an animal. A domestic/house cat the size of an Alsatian dog is on the other hand something mighty freaky, yet evidence is that they are becoming more and more common lately in some parts of the world.
May I say that on an episode of Real Rescues a BBC morning programme the police officer covering the area of Faringdon near Swindon stated that we have big cats living in the area and that the police acknowledge this as fact. This was stated in an interview to Nick Knowles
I would not be at all surprised at the continuing survival of a Native British Lynx, and this museum find is indeed a breakthrough on that score (I would also not be surprised at the continuance of British elk and brown bear through the centuries but those are separate issues)
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Best Wishes, Dale D.
May I say that on an episode of Real Rescues a BBC morning programme the police officer covering the area of Faringdon near Swindon stated that we have big cats living in the area and that the police acknowledge this as fact. This was stated in an interview to Nick Knowles
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