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Posted by Ken Schneider on 20:41:07 12/30/08
In Reply to: Ken, what was its tail like - short or long? posted by Marci
Yes. Through the binos I suspected a cat, but could not say any more. Back home, I enlarged the photos but did not otherwise alter the image, and the larger it got, its face began to look like a red fox. However, the ears were not big enough and the body was definitely cat: heavy legs and chest, mottling on the front legs and chest-- a panther could have that too. Also, as I saw it in life, even at 150 yards, it was way too big for a fox, and too bulky for a coyote. But its body was shorter than I would expect of a panther. I believe that the photo shows the tail as a stump about a foot long-- a bit longer than I thought for a bobcat. Maybe it is not the tail, but a shadow. All three original photos are stacked at this link, and a photo of a deer that was also at about the same camera range is also next to them.
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