Bobcat Catches Shark At Popular Florida Beach And Becomes Dinner

albasun ^ | 08.04.2015 | Sean Truett

[seantruet]

CAT-FISHED! Something you don't see every day... I don't know who is more shocked, Us or the Shark!?

Read more at http://www.albasun.com/2015/04/shark-attacked-by-bobcat-at-florida-beach.html

[piasa]

There most certainly is hair around his face but it is swept back and wet... you can see the eyeline on it and see it’s swept back.

[piasa]

A Florida panther is a mountain lion. And this sure as heck is not a panther, it’s a plain old bobcat.

[MeshugeMikey]

if its a bobcat it’s a huge monster bobcat !

Id guess that not all bobcats across the country are “identical”

[MeshugeMikey]

Okay

[Flycatcher]

And this sure as heck is not a panther, it’s a plain old bobcat.

I totally agree. I enlarged the photo and it is definitely marked like a bobcat. The rear haunches are decidedly bobcat-like too.

[muir_redwoods]

That’s a mountain lion that lost most of its tail. The head is not the head of a bobcat.

[NonValueAdded]

Mountain lion? Like Florida has mountains ... Florida panther is more likely.

[piasa]

It has the typical markings of a Florida bobcat- usually Florida’s animal’s fur is noticeably lighter, spots faded, and shorter than northern counterparts due to heat and sun exposure. An everglades cat will likely be much lighter than a cypress dome cat from the west coast, too. I’m a wildlife artist and paint these things all the time from pelts. Some bobcats will be heavily marked, others sparsely marked, because they are all individuals, and their markings and facial structure and even eye color varies with age as well.

If you’ve ever noticed, white tail deer in summer are quite reddish and their hair is short. In winter the same deer will sport a much thicker, longer coat that is grayish brown rather than reddish. That animals have winter coats and summer coats is well known among hunters, and if you’ve ever worked at a processor or tannery you would have noticed the range of color and markings is extremely wide. A southern deer can be spotted with bare antlers yet still be in the reddish summer coat, while a northern deer will be in “winter gray” when its antlers are bare of velvet.

If I painted a northern bobcat in a scene with palmettos it would look very wrong.

[piasa]

It’s got a bobcat nose profile.

If it were a cut-tailed panther the tail would be many times THICKER. That’s a skinny bobcat tail.

[Slings and Arrows]

Have at him, humble.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Vendome]

Them news chicks are hot!

Wish they could have shown a picture of the pussy ...cat

[tumblindice]

I bet my money on a bob-tailed cat.

[Vendome]

For sure it’s not a cougar...

A cougar can hold its prey...

[vetvetdoug]

Bobcat....we have them that size all around here in NE Mississippi. Deer hunters shot one a few years back 100yds North of my house that weighed >50#.

[LucyT]

Is the bobcat the dinner or the shark?

My question, as well.

[jazusamo]

Thanks Fly and piasa, you’re the experts and I’ll concede but it sure looks like a mountain lion to me. :-)

[x_plus_one]

That is a Florida Panther. This is a bobcat: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/bobcat/

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

That’s a bobcat???? Biggest one I’ve seen! Looks like a freakin’ sabertooth!

[Jet Jaguar]

I would classify it as a cougar.