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| The escaped Sussex tiger. |
In the U.S. we have more wild lions than Africa, more than 500,000 black bear, an expanding grizzly population, bobcats everywhere, coyotes in numbers too large to count (we shoot and trap over 500,000 a year and the population continues to expand), and we have thousands and thousands of wolves (almost 3,000 wolves in Minnesota alone).
In the UK, however, their largest predator is a 15-pound fox.
Which is not to say that folks in the UK do not wish there was something really big and really scary out there in the dark.
As I have noted in the past, various "Beast of Bodmin" stories have been circulating since long before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles, and entire web sites are devoted to the notion that there are "British Big Cats" roaming the countryside.
Of course, eventually a large big cat was sure to escape from somewhere, lending credence to the "Big Cat" myth.
And guess what?
It's finally happened!
A British Big Cat has indeed been spotted, been well photographed at large in the British countryside, and even (with the help of a helicopter) been captured. The video is here for all to see.
Let the critics doubt now! What a monster!
No word yet on where this animals escaped from.
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