New Predator Species Caught on Camera

In 1874, John Edward Gray first described a bay cat under the binominal Felis badia on the basis of a skin and skull collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in Sarawak in 1856.

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New? Okay!

*It is BA, though.

For crying out loud, there are several of them that live in the subdivisions of Atlanta GA. Rare, ppppfffffffff. It's a house cat.

can anyone else hear that whistle/growl sound coming from it? i mean i don't see anyone mentioning it even though it's so loud.

Here's a fossa in case anyone doesn't know what one looks like. I had to look it up

fossa

I watched the video twice, it looks like cgi. I'm not saying it is, but it sure looks that way to me. Strange.

originally posted by: pheonix358
The tail does not look like a feline tail, almost looks lizard or kangaroo like.

Be interesting to see if they can get more data (without shooting and dissecting)

Are we sure this is real?

Nice find if it is.

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Have you ever seen a Snow Leopard's tail?:



Big cats with long thick tails (such as the snow leopard and the cougar) use the heavy weight of the tail as a counterbalance as they pursue their prey.

a reply to: Violater1

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic?

Where the hell do they have bay cats in Atlanta?

I wish they could put something so it would have a size reference. It could be the size of a house cat for all I can tell.

originally posted by: Box of Rain

originally posted by: pheonix358
The tail does not look like a feline tail, almost looks lizard or kangaroo like.

Be interesting to see if they can get more data (without shooting and dissecting)

Are we sure this is real?

Nice find if it is.

P

Have you ever seen a Snow Leopard's tail?:

Big cats with long thick tails (such as the snow leopard and the cougar) use the heavy weight of the tail as a counterbalance as they pursue their prey.

One of our cats uses it's tail like it is giving us the finger if we do something it doesn't like. It turns the end up and jerks the tail up and down like it is saying F you.

The inevitable consequence of too many humans on this planet is that natural habitats are going to get encroached upon by farming and shrink.

Probably cross breezed..If not slightly appears like CGI
Similar to the fossa

That's one freaky looking cat. Microcephalic even.

There are large cats in southern Texas.
I've seen them a few times.
The locals call them panthers.
What I've seen appears to be a black cougar.
I've found tracks larger than my fist.
A conservative guess would be somewhere around 120 lbs.
I gave up trying to farm poultry.
Birds don't last long around here.

a reply to: skunkape23

Do you think they're being taken by big cats?

I heard those big black cats are also in Florida. Maybe they came from there.

a reply to: Asktheanimals

Borneo is in danger of losing all of it's wild species due to palm oil plantations and deforestation.

Not really. It's huge and inhospitable to humans. But I agree with you that significant parts of it are being devastated.

a reply to: Gargoyle91

Yea tail looks like he's a tree dweller.

Hind legs also unusally long for a cat. But if arboreal, how come so comfortable on the ground? Tree dwellers tend to be very nervous on terra firma.

a reply to: Macenroe82

Please don't encourage the trade in wild cats. If you want a mean cat I'll loan you one.

a reply to: AxlJones

This is purely a clickbait thread. What the hell? I don't come on ATS to get baited into pointless threads.

Read the other responses and see how this thread has made people happy.

Yes, my mistake about its being unknown. Still, you're not going to see one trawling through your garbage any time soon.

Try Gaviscon.

a reply to: buddha

or a cat and some kind of monkey did it!

Looks like that, no? Those hind legs.

a reply to: Wolfenz

Is that a fossa? How big are they? That guy is twice the size of my cat.