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The Staffordshire Panther: is the British countryside really teeming with big cats?

www.theguardian.com The Staffordshire Panther: is the British countryside really teeming with big cats?

Even Royal Marine snipers couldn’t hunt down the Beast of Exmoor in the 1980s. But, according to a new documentary, this latest big cat sighting is supported by clear photographic evidence

The Staffordshire Panther: is the British countryside really teeming with big cats?

The makers of Panthera Britannia Declassified, a new documentary on Amazon Prime, claim to have discovered the clearest ever photograph of a big cat in the British countryside: a panther-like creature lying in the long grass in Smallthorne, Staffordshire. It’s probably the best photo of a British big cat that exists.

According to the documentary-makers who discovered the photo in the files of a zoology organisation, the photo is dated 17 March. But it doesn’t say what year.

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the Amazon documentary also presents DNA evidence proving the presence of at least one wild big cat near a sheep-kill in Gloucestershire in July 2022.

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  • This was not a new photo, as noted. The photo was apparently with the Centre for Fortean Zoology and they determined it was NOT genuine.