Florida Panther
 

Around 8:30 A.M. this morning my wife spotted a Florida panther running in the Village of Lake Deaton. It might be the same one pictured in the other on line news source two days ago. I will have my camera ready for its next appearance. :coolsmiley:

TPK, if I were you I would get that picture from the plane. :1rotfl:

Do you know who it was? Barkov? Luongo? Ekblad?

Photo taken by Lake Deaton resident Bruce Small on Jan 31st at 6:30 in the evening. It was on the 9th fairway of Egret nine at Evans Prairie Country Club. I played Egret two days later in the afternoon on Feb 2nd, I believe I would liked to have known that info at the time.

https://mrymq4fe22535zembykam4tw-wpe...Egret-nine.jpg

As someone who trapped quite a few years as a young man. I would say this is a large Bobcat!! FWIW

Don't Bobcats have a short tail? Hence the bob in Bobcat.

Not a bob cat

I don't believe that's a bobcat. I could be wrong, though. I've never seen a panther with spots. But that might just be the photo quality making it look like spots.

FWC says its a bobcat (see online news)

“I knew immediately that was not a panther – but definitely was a bobcat,” said Greg Workman, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
FWC’s “panther team of experts” determined that based on the pattern on the fur along with the distinctive shapes of the head and hindquarters that the “subject in question was a bobcat.”

:MOJE_whot:

Here's a Florida Panther. This photo taken east of Gainesville by a motion camera during the night. Question, is a Bobcat more tame, less ferocious?

http://www.bigcypressswamp.com/images/PANTHERhog.jpg

:confused: Don't know who to believe.... “panther team of experts” or TOTV experts!:icon_wink:

The markings and fur are clearly of a bobcat although juvenile panthers can have spots. What people are seeing as a tail may be the right rear leg.

Here's our bobcat. Same markings as earlier photo, but not much of a tail so I think the "rear leg" hypothesis could be correct

:oops: Sorry....I was being sarcastic about the poster that said "Not a bob cat"