No, DNA tests don’t confirm that. DNA samples have been reported in the past, it’s not a new thing, and isolated incidents don’t indicate the presence of breeding populations for which the scientific consensus remains skeptical because of just how difficult it would be for big cats like panthers to establish themselves in the UK’s environment.
When I lived in the Forest of Dean a group of us 100% saw a lynx.
>Forensic scientists at a top laboratory
I’m so glad it was a top laboratory, or I wouldn’t have believed it.
I wonder if these are all the cougars in my area that are apparently desperate to meet me?
This myth is, I suppose, founded in the wishful thinking that Britain has wilderness and scary apex predators left.
I’ve never seen a big cat in the wild but as a teenager I did once see a Wallaby.
Something else the rich can get a kick out of hunting for a thrill kill.
I live in the Peak District and as a kid my grandfather always warned me against playing in the woods alone because there was a ‘black panther’ in the woods. WTF.
I wouldn’t be bothered if they were, they’d do far less damage to the environment than regular cats.
> Forensic scientists at a top laboratory have now confirmed that the hair matches the DNA of a big cat species with a 99% match.
Is there a reason the actual species is not revealed?
Seems the deniers and skeptic were wrong.
The truth is out there and I want to believe
We always knew that, they caught that puma in Scotland, a Lynx in London and a jungle cat in Armagh.
I have to admit that when I was about 20 I let my mum’s jaguar go. I felt sorry for him. Probably dead now though. I’m on speaking terms with my mum now. Worked out in the end
I have a mate that 100% believes he saw a penguin at a beach somewhere in the UK, to this day he still contacts local wildlife agencies to get them to acknowledge it, but they shut him down every time saying there are loads of birds that look like penguins so it must have been that.
>top laboratory
So you’re telling me “top men” are involved? Who are they?
>!If no one gets this reference then it will be a major disappointment.!<
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No, DNA tests don’t confirm that. DNA samples have been reported in the past, it’s not a new thing, and isolated incidents don’t indicate the presence of breeding populations for which the scientific consensus remains skeptical because of just how difficult it would be for big cats like panthers to establish themselves in the UK’s environment.
When I lived in the Forest of Dean a group of us 100% saw a lynx.
>Forensic scientists at a top laboratory
I’m so glad it was a top laboratory, or I wouldn’t have believed it.
I wonder if these are all the cougars in my area that are apparently desperate to meet me?
This myth is, I suppose, founded in the wishful thinking that Britain has wilderness and scary apex predators left.
I’ve never seen a big cat in the wild but as a teenager I did once see a Wallaby.
Something else the rich can get a kick out of hunting for a thrill kill.
I live in the Peak District and as a kid my grandfather always warned me against playing in the woods alone because there was a ‘black panther’ in the woods. WTF.
I wouldn’t be bothered if they were, they’d do far less damage to the environment than regular cats.
> Forensic scientists at a top laboratory have now confirmed that the hair matches the DNA of a big cat species with a 99% match.
Is there a reason the actual species is not revealed?
Seems the deniers and skeptic were wrong.
The truth is out there and I want to believe
We always knew that, they caught that puma in Scotland, a Lynx in London and a jungle cat in Armagh.
I have to admit that when I was about 20 I let my mum’s jaguar go. I felt sorry for him. Probably dead now though. I’m on speaking terms with my mum now. Worked out in the end
I have a mate that 100% believes he saw a penguin at a beach somewhere in the UK, to this day he still contacts local wildlife agencies to get them to acknowledge it, but they shut him down every time saying there are loads of birds that look like penguins so it must have been that.
>top laboratory
So you’re telling me “top men” are involved? Who are they?
>!If no one gets this reference then it will be a major disappointment.!<