The owner of a trail camera, installed in woodland near Ruthin to film deer and badgers, has sent us this video of what he believes could be a black panther.
I saw one on the isle of wight (sandown) when I climbed a chalet roof on holiday as a kid it was looking right at me, nobody believed me at the time until other sightings.
@@mtb_man_sam187 rough guess on date but approx 33 years ago all I knew it as was sandown holiday park/camp just above and before the Wight cliffs it was still there 4 years ago but was for sale then and the clubhouse was looking derelict.
was driving through a country lane in the uk when faced with a black panther just staring directly at the headlights about 4ft tall. Quite a sight for sure. scary if not in a vehicle
No such thing as a panther. It was probably a melanistic leopard. They are around the same size as Labrador and black ones were often kept by idiotic exotic pet owners who then released them when it became illegal to own them without a license. Still I guess it’s good to have an apex predator again to keep deer numbers down since the government keeps refusing to bring back wolves and lynx due to fear of upsetting sheep farmers..
Although I’d say leopard and puma numbers aren’t large enough here to be having much of an impact. Deer are still breeding and spreading like wildfire in the majority of areas to the detriment of woodlands
@@thewanderingwolves90 JEALOUS? If you got out more and lived your life I'm sure you'd see plenty of unusual sightings including the cloth to wipe up your jealousy! But you wont see much sat on your lazy bum WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY! Have a nice day Warrior! The Jealous Keyboard Warrior
Hard to tell how big that cat was as we don't know how big those trees are. If the one that the cat went behind was two foot across, and bearing in mind that it was closer to the camera than the cat, then that cat was not a Black Panther. Just a slightly larger domestic kitty out for a stroll in some woodland.
Moggie. ive seen wild cats and big cat evidence in devon, the fens and north kent. i also have 3 moggies 2 of which are black. i live in woodland adjacent to scrub and farmland and have my moggies on trail cam. that footage is 100% domestic/feral moggie.
I dunno if the brush was covering it but leopards tend to have quite a low hanging long two which I didn't actually see much of a tail? Could be a bobcat of some kind I'm not sure can't really tell how big it is, also if you haven't seen you should check the news apparently black fur on a barbed fence after a farmers sheep was killed recently just outside the forest of Dean and it was confirmed to be black panther fur (or black leopard specifically) so honestly I think some of these sightings are legit and may be from smugglers that have dumped them at some point from cubs
Key word is "apparently". A sound trail of evidence is required to give even slight credibility to these encounters. The possibility isn't being rejected, the quality and source of evidence usually wouldn't get you convicted, and when witness credibility is considered maybe for cult membership, but for biological accuracy??? Plenty of DNA evidence should be present, it's not that hard to find if leopards are about (although sightings by humans are harder). The few apparently more credible reports (even most trail cam proof can be immediately dismissed) would suggest single digit, even one or 2 individuals MIGHT be wandering the British Isles. Plenty of pussycats though
It's right at the begining it's walking through the bush. I couldn't see it the first time I watched it. In the 1st section of the video to the left hand side upwards.about 5 seconds long.
@@margarethughes3763I slowed the footage right down and zoomed right in and there's no way you can determine exactly what that creature is or its size.
It looks like a smaller bobcat size animal. too far away to tell for sure what kind of CAT it was. Also a Large house cat, I have had several that weight was 19-20 lbs.
Was it black? If so, it wasn't a panther. There is no such thing as a black panther. If it was a black wildcat, it would have been a black jaguar or a black leopard.
@@stephei1082 I`ve seen three very large (over 150 pounds) coal black cats at very close range in Louisiana and in NW Louisiana and central Louisiana there are places with huge tracks everywhere even though sightings are typically rare. Sightings of other predators are rare here as well. There are wolves here and I`ve seen just one (dead). There are bobcats and foxes here and I`ve only seen them while traveling in cars. There are bears here. I`ve seen one. So I don`t care what you "experts" who never go into the wilderness think. Most people living here have seen them.
If it really was caught on camera, it definitely was not this particular camera because if you watch the video, you will begin to realise, at the very end of the video, that the video title was just a big fat lie!
With the amount of sightings we'd know by now.. Livestock would turn up ripped to shreds, at this point all these videos are like those ghost videos capturing dust move, you've caught someones pet cat on cam.
They do, but it's also not like they hunt and kill daily, depending on animal size, which it's usually sheep as they are free to roam on large moorland, they might kill 1 every 1.5- 2 weeks, they also hide the kills too, and have a very large territory of roaming up to 100 miles, so the same one could be spotted in different locations and thought to be different ones, so one cat covering a 100 mile zone of land isn't going to leave that many bodies behind to be seen. Of course there are hoaxes and also people who think they've seen one but it's someone's large cat or dog, but there could be a hand full out there.
exactly. this whole british isles big cat sightings thing is just rubbish. all the vids and pictures are just house cats, dogs, or blurry messy images that cant be made out. you can literally search for big cat sightings anywhere else where they would normally be and the pictures and videos capture them just fine. people trying to tell me it just a coincidence that theres no a single pic or vid thats obviously a big cat. I dont doubt that maybe a few times someones exotic pet got out but the idea that its some regular thing is just bullocks.
Absolutely no one has commented on whether or not these panther-looking cats are endemic/invasive species in the British Isles. Something tells me they are neither “feral” domesticated cats nor a native species.
They are the offspring of pet big cat, many people had pet leopards and other big cats but there was a ban put on them if you didn't have a license so many people released theirs into the wild as this was legal until 10 years later. A circus went bust and did the same thing. So these are just the offspring of those cats, hence the Increase in sightings as the population grows. There are also supposedly some native lynx's left in Britain but we hunted then and all other native big predators to extinction as far as we know.
@@LedplimmyXD A farmer shot a European lynx in Norfolk in the 1990s. It was verified by the police, who saw the body. (They were looking for illegally shot birds of prey, and didn't mind the lynx in the freezer, because no crime had been committed.)
Interesting video but likely some good editing to remove this cat walking across the path. Some numbers; the average cat is 18 inches nose to body and an additional 12 inches of tail. This big tom cat clearly fits those proportions and may slightly exceed those averages. Not a black leopard or black jaguar. Btw, mountain lions are not black. FYI, these 14 species of wild cats are documented to exhibit melanism; jaguars, leopards, servals, Geoffroy's cats, oncillas, Pampas cats, African golden cats, marbled cats, bobcats, guiñas, southern tiger cats, margays, jungle cats and Asian golden cats.
People talk about these "big cats" like they are a completely separate species lol. The only large black cat the world is a leopard or jaguar, how come all these sightings are black? Not one single report of a spotted cat? Even though in the wild a black leopard or jaguar is extremely rare, yet they are common in Britain??
The infamous invisible panther, along with the invisible alien, ufo, and honest politician. I do believe in the wild cats in my uk, and aliens /ufos, politicians maybe not 😂
Trash cans as show in the video are a bit less than 3ft high. Also wild cats don't move that way but house cats do. This cat is less than 1/2 that height. Those kinds of wild cats are around 3 ft tall I'd say its an house cat.
Look up "Luna the leopard" on RU-vid its a russian women that owns a 2 year old tame leopard she has documented the whole experience. That female big cat is a lovely creature and now full grown she is surprisingly small. Don't forget the black leopards in England were former pets. Luna looks remarkably like alot of the big cat photos in England.
As a former biologist interested in the UK big cat phenomenon, I'm struck by how many sightings have been described as being too small for 'typical' leopards. It makes me wonder whether there might not be some kind of hybrid breeding out there ... but if so, what? The one I saw briefly though was definitely full-grown leopard size, because of the deer I also had in my field of view. I have no idea as to its identity though, whether it was a black leopard or a black jaguar, because it was too far away.
@@anotherfreediver3639 I saw a big panther like animal (leopard or jaguar type) near Reading, Berkshire in 2006. I am a nature photographer who has seen enough big cats in the wild, to not see a domestic cat and mistake it for a panther! There are definitely large cats roaming the UK. The big black cat is the most well known, but a family friend of mine saw what she called a 'skinny lioness' near Windsor, Berkshire. What she had seen was a cougar. She was so terrified by the encounter, that she has not set foot in that area alone again!
Since there is nothing for scale relevant to suggest it's a specific size merely indicates a wish to believe anything. It's something dark moving in the understorey.
Oh look it's Tiddles again. It doesn't even look big. Stop showing footage of random black moggies and trying to fool people into thinking it's a frigging panther or something.
Firstly, there is no such thing as a black panther. If it is a black wildcat, it is either a leopard or a jaguar. Also, sometimes though rarely, it can be an ocelot or a serval. Secondly, was it lying down? I didn't see anything in this video.
There is a black panther on U TUBE .It lives in a ladies flat.called LUNA .She takes it for walks in the country side with her rotwiler dog .It's has rounded ears .Blue eyes.Its a happy cat.
