[winodog]

The Kzin are finally here.

[jim_trent]

A 108 pound mountain lion was recently captured about 2 blocks from the busiest intersection in a town of 350,000 people. It is now in the zoo. There had been sightings before, which were ignored. There have been other sightings since then. So much for the line about poor wild animals not being able to adapt and not being able to survive in urban sprawl.

[cavtrooper21]

There was a reliable mountian lion spotting here in Lawrence KS.
In the middle of town, about a block west of the University of Kansas.
Here kitty kitty .......

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

"We've watched it stalk wallabies, we've seen it sitting high up in a tree. It roams around like a large family dog that thinks it owns the place."

Did she ever think to try to take a photograph?

[Hugin]

Where's the Crocodile Hunter when you really need him?

"I'm just going to reach over and grab him by the scruff of the neck. Owww! Crikey, he just grabbed my hand. No worrys though I'll just--arghhh!!!"

[Swordmaker]

There once was a marsupial tigerlike animal in Australia called the Thylacoleo - it may also be refered to as the Queensland Tiger.

The Thylacoleo (Marsupial Lion) is a carniverous marsupial that lived between 1,6000,000 - 40,000 years ago. It was 1.5 meters long from head to tail and 75cm tall at the shoulders. The Marsupial lion was the largest meat-eating mammal to have lived in Australia, and one of the largest marsupial carnivores the world has ever seen. It would have hunted animals including the giant Diprotodon in the forests, woodlands, shrublands and river valleys.

The Marsupial lion had enormous slicing cheek tooth, large stabbing incisor teeth at the front of the mouth and a huge thumb claw. The claw may have been used to disembowl it's prey or hold down stuggling animals.

Another possibility is the Tasmanian Tiger that has been thought to be extince since 1932. This is the Thylacine which was variously called Tasmanian Tiger and Tasmanian Wolf. It, too, is a marsupial.

Thylacine cyanocephaplus

The Jaws that bite...

The last living pair... now deceased... or are they?

Cryptozoology is such fun!

[Jonah Hex]

[MarkL]

Hell, you don't have to go "down under" to find "big cats! Come to Kansas City!

It seems that there were a number of rumors about mountain lions in the KC area, but they were all said to be nothing more than rumors, never mind that there were photos and tracks... Nothing to see here, move along. Until a while back when a car swerved to miss a deer running across I-435, and wound up hitting and killing a mountain lion! This was not in some out of the way place, either. It's in the vicinity of "The Northland," near the Worlds of Fun amusement park! There have been other sightings since.

Mark

[SunkenCiv]

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