Video captures footage of 'big cat' in Gloucestershire
Is this the wildcat of Woodchester?
Caught on camera by teaching assistant Coryn Memory, the video footage - which can now be seen on The Sun's website - has astounded big cat trackers who believe it is thriving in the Stroud Valleys.
She has spotted the black leopard-like animal six times at an undisclosed location only three miles from sightings and deer carcass finds near Woodchester.
"I looked up and there it was," said mum-of-two Coryn, 45, of Stroud who took the footage from near her home.
"The first time I saw it, I remember thinking 'it's a great big black cat', it could not have been anything else."
Gloucester big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge gave her a video camera, and a year later in July 2010, she struck lucky.
"I got about 20 minutes footage," she said.
"It looks like it's hunting small animals in the grass, which would be around in the summer."
Mr Tunbridge used a cut out of a black cat to try and get an idea of the cat's size.
It appears to be larger than his model which measures almost five feet in length from nose to tail.
"It's the best footage in the UK," he said.
"I have been over there and it's stalked me - I heard it growling."
Last week University of Warwick tests to find big cat DNA on deer carcasses discovered near Woodchester Park and Dursley only found traces of fox and deer.
Several sightings of an animal which could be a large black cat been reported nearby, and there have been other sightings and deer carcass finds at Coopers Edge, Rodborough and countryside around Newent.
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by bigcatman
Wednesday, February 15 2012, 3:09PM
“It's quite funny to think they've found a 29 mm lizard but we can't manage to
see a load of big cats that are supposed to be on the loose!!
I have little faith in the 'experts' they bring in on anything, in my experience
the media will use anyone who backs up the story they want to tell, regardless
of whether it is the truth.”
by bigcatman
Thursday, February 09 2012, 3:31PM
“Again, http://tinyurl.com/7o6a48h">http://tinyurl.com/7o6a48h to dismiss what Dave_Kemp was harping on about watch, then feel free to share your opinion. Taken from Youtube.
Again, http://tinyurl.com/7o6a48h">http://tinyurl.com/7o6a48h to dismiss what Dave_Kemp was harping on about watch, then feel free to share your opinion. Taken from Youtube
No Chris, they don't look "black" at all, actually there are many shades of "black" but the "black" in "black panther" is a total misnomer, they are not truely black, brown and even by looking at the pictures in your url, it clearly shows brown, even the rosetts shown give the game away. Sorry, not black at all. Technically black is what your brain perceives when there is a total absence of reflected light. However when painting, artists often create their own blacks for shadows and such, by mixing a Primary colour and its opposite Secondary colour. (ie. Blue and orange) to create "shades" of black (and grey). This tends to give a painting more "life" as black is uncommon in nature. (from wiki.answers)
Ergo. When people say they have seen something such as a big cat, this is a term known as "scotopia" The eyes see what they believe, but the brain perceives and by completing the jigsaw of what was seen or even heard, the brain makes up a picture, but not always correct. To say that there has been more than 2000 plus sightings (according to the BCinB and other cryptozoology groups and the press), to say this does not mean that there are 2000 or more big cats wild free. By putting one person, ten people, a thousand or two thousand people all in a witness parade, then by logic alone, each person should have seen something different, just like when you see a rainbow, each person viewing it sees other colours and where it falls or starts etc. Ergo. How come the so-called sightings of these cats are always the same? Black, big, etc? The answer is simple. The brain precieves what it saw and made up a picture which it regonises, but in truth is not a fact or a truth but merely a scotopic vision.”
by elLince
Thursday, February 09 2012, 12:39AM
“Very interesting footage as we can see that this cat, measured as 3.5 feet long in the body and 2.5 foot long tail does not conform to our standard image of a large cat, because it is here in Britain and maybe adapted for this landscape. At that size it could be something like a female leopard, which is the most likely option from a scientific bases for a black cat of that scale.
Well done to Coryn Memory.”
by Dave_Kemp
Tuesday, February 07 2012, 11:49PM
“Countyboy,
you will note the negative indicators you're received for posting common sense, it's the way of it in here unfortunately but as it doesn't bother me one iotaand I suggest that you treat the practice with similar contempt. If I posted the weather forecast, I'd have half a dozen red arrows within minutes, such is the troll population in internet fora.
Those who ascribe to the "populist view" that non-indigenous cats are as likely to be present in the wilds of the UK as the Yeti are of course talking through their collective rear end whilst ignoring the cold hard fact that the cats have been FOUND in the UK for years.
It's really quite odd and I can only consider that they also belong to the 'flat earth society' and still gaze in awe at moving pictures on a thing called a 'tellyvidgun" ( sic) whilst trying to catch the little man responsible for switching the light on in their refridgerator when they open the door.”
by meesh4
Tuesday, February 07 2012, 9:13PM
“Thanks for the entertainment guys :D”