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Bobcat Catches Shark At Popular Florida Beach And Becomes Dinner
albasun ^ | 08.04.2015 | Sean Truett

Posted on 04/07/2015 6:42:06 PM PDT by 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


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: attack; bobcat; floridabeach; shark; wildlife
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To: NonValueAdded

Florida panther is the exact same critter as a cougar a/k/a mountain lion a/k/a Puma concolor, complete with the characteristic massively long thick tail, and that shark would look much, much smaller in a panther’s jaws. The FL panther’s been named a subspecies of Puma concolor not because it is really any different so much as to take advantage of the endangered species act, etc, in order to use it as a poster child for saving the Everglades. Saving cypress domes to protect a unique tree snail or bug will not be as effective a campaign politically and emotionally as “saving the panther,” nevermind that Puma concolor is not only not endangered in the west but is often considered a pest.

FL panther’s fur isn’t as plush and they’re inbred from being cut off from the rest of the cougar population since the cougar was once exterminated from most of the eastern US [except for Florida], but it in no way do they remotely resemble this bobcat. In fact the desperation by some greenies to protect it as a subspecies did it harm, as they blocked efforts to bring in fresh DNA by importing western mountain lions, making the remaining “panthers” continue to inbreed and thus more susceptible to genetic disorders. [I think common sense has since prevailed and some western blood has been brought in from Texas.]

The first chance they get they will breed freely again with “mountain lions” if the species ever recovers enough for the range to expand into Florida, which it may, as they are appearing again in the Ozarks. There are less reliable sightings in Alabama, but it’s possible they are real and getting closer.


61 posted on 04/07/2015 8:26:29 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Going to disagree, now that I've looked through some "Florida bobcat" images. I agree with others that if it were a cougar with a cut tail, the tail would be much thicker. Also, take a look at this pic. The back legs of a bobcat and a cougar are quite different, as well as the head profile. I do think it's a bobcat with the shark. I was just taken aback because our California bobcats run MUCH smaller! LOL!


62 posted on 04/07/2015 8:27:09 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

They feast pretty good on turkey and deer here. Not to mention everything else like coon and ‘possum and snake and citrus and cane rats.

Though Florida deer are dwarfs compared to Illinois or Michigan deer, our turkeys are huge...


63 posted on 04/07/2015 8:30:21 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: seantruet

Something very fishy here. It looks like a King Mackerel with rigamortis, not a shark. My guess is its just a dead fish that curled up in the sun while in a fisherman’s pail.


64 posted on 04/07/2015 8:32:28 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

you can see spot markings o nthe cat if you look close- but they are in shadow so it’s hard to see- bobcats In the south lack the fur northern bobcats have, and are likely quite tannish like the one in photo- the reason thisl ooks like a ‘really large cat’ is due to optical illusion where the witness called the shark 4-5 feet long- the witness no doubt was not nearly close enough to measure the fish accurately- the shark may in all likelihood by just 2-3 feet long - so we all went into the photo thinking the shark was 4-5 feet and immediately compared the cat to the fish based on that assumption

The hind legs look squatter to me than a courger’s hind legs would look- the squat legs more useful for short powerful bursts after rabbits than for long runs after deer and elk like cougers do

My guess is bobcat- like someone said, the tail of a couger is much thicker because they are used as a balancer and counterweight when running down large prey at high speeds


65 posted on 04/07/2015 8:33:56 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

That’s what I was thinking- it was the back legs, and facial features that make me think bobcat- plus the fact that I can see spots In the fur- the facial features look very ‘domestic cat-like’ whereas lions do not (My grandmother had a Maine coon cat- and they have fur kinda like a bobcat- tufts of fur extend o n cheeks, a but of a beard etc-


66 posted on 04/07/2015 8:38:24 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: deoetdoctrinae
We "are" feeding the cat....


67 posted on 04/07/2015 8:43:07 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: piasa

Some days you get the shark...

Some days the gators get you :

http://baynews9.com/content/dam/news/images/2012/04/7-gator-bobcat-stalk-5-30-12.jpg


68 posted on 04/07/2015 8:52:43 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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69 posted on 04/07/2015 9:01:38 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: jazusamo

Panther doesn’t like to let sharks live, maybe ‘cause one took the better part of his kitty tail sometime back ...


70 posted on 04/07/2015 9:03:27 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: seantruet

If you zoom in, it’s got dots and check tufts — its a bobcat.


71 posted on 04/07/2015 9:08:27 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: FreeReign

Yep...that’s no bobcat. That’s a catamount, puma, mountain lion, cougar, or panther. I recall the Florida panther story in The Yearling.


72 posted on 04/07/2015 9:14:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Born to Conserve

Maybe we can agree to simply call it a wildcat.
Or a missing lynx. Or just a bob-tail cat.
Doo dah, doo dah.


73 posted on 04/07/2015 9:15:38 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: seantruet
The reporterette said, "If you come across one of these "bobcats", it will probably run in the opposite direction".

Yeah, but what if it doesn't run and looks at you and gets into a crouch/lunge position?

74 posted on 04/07/2015 9:47:57 PM PDT by PROCON (It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled -- Mark Twain)
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To: Vendome; Jet Jaguar

I got eaten by a cougar once. (and a Møøse once bit my sister.)

we got better...


75 posted on 04/07/2015 10:08:05 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Maybe the cougar is named Bob. Then it would be a Bob cat! LOL!


76 posted on 04/07/2015 10:10:51 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Vendome; Jet Jaguar
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

77 posted on 04/07/2015 10:12:51 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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78 posted on 04/07/2015 11:30:05 PM PDT by Daaave ("You see, but you do not observe." Sherlock Holmes)
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To: Jet Jaguar

We got bobcats in PA that I have seen, and that ain’t no bobcat. Maybe a swamp panther with a chopped off tail.


79 posted on 04/07/2015 11:54:29 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: doorgunner69
Not from the length of the tail it is not.

The short tail is the result of it's last try at a shark dinner.

80 posted on 04/08/2015 4:16:50 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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