Big Cats in the UK Countryside Confirmed – The Wild Times Ep. 148
Big Cats in the UK Countryside Confirmed – The Wild Times Ep. 148
We discuss the confirmation of a big cat in the UK countryside after years of big cat sightings in the UK, sharks in the UK, the state of wildlife media as we know it, and our Top 3 & DFL summer vacations. Enjoy!
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Where do you think the UK big cat came from?
Forest has lost stock. He thinks northeners speak like 19th century Gentlemen.
YANKS YOUR SOUNDING SILLY GOOGLE OR YOU TUBE BIG CATS UK
YOU MIGHT EVEN SEEM SENSIBLE THEN
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dsiff8eFhR0&pp=ygUUV2Fyd2lja3NoaXJlIHdpbGRjYXQ%3D
there are 100% big cats in the uk ,there are hundreds of miles on continuous country side, valleys and even mountains from the midlands stretching all the way to scotland, there have been reports of big cats living here since at least the 50s – 60s
Ahhhh all that swearing. Pitty I can't watch it with my son.
Nobody is saying that its native to the UK. They were released back in the 70's or 80's when the dangerous animal act came in. It was easier and cheaper for the owners to release them into the wild. They've been seen all over the UK, theres a few trail cam pics of these big cats in the UK. They've survived the wild in the UK ever since they were released
We had Eurasian lynx in uk and cave lions in prehistory
Forrest is generally good at what he does but he is up his own ass. There are many big cats native to european countries such as the bobcat, who were also also native to britain 200 years ago. He makes fun of his followers and fans as well. There have been documentaries made by many big cat experts who disagree with Forrest. Theses goofballs dont even talk about wildlife anymore
I’ve seen an undeniable photo of a melanistic leopard in the uk, the cat was shot and I know where it was buried. Forest is very misinformed on this subject, in a fan of his but he’s talking a load of nonsense here.
If 2 black leopards breed they produce entirely black offspring. If regular leopard breeds with a melanistic leopard they produce 75% melanistic offspring, this is why most sightings are of black cats. The reason these cats are here in the wild is because they were very popular pets and owned in quite large numbers in the past, until the 1976 dwa act forced owners to obtain a permit at great expense or have their animals put down, a lot of people opted to release their pets into the wild.
If forest took a moment to actually do some research he would have a totally different outlook on the subject
I live on the Sussex coast West Sussex to be exact. I’ve caught a few weird looking sharks/ fish. I’d love to see you do shark week on British species of fish and sharks
I was in Cornwall on a double decker bus
30 years ago when I was 20
Going thro the lanes between St mawgan and nearly at Mawgan Porth
Saw wot I thought was a massive black dog running accross a field
It's run wasn't a dog then it jumped a 5ft cornish wall like it was nothing
It was 100 percent a big cat
It was spring and makes sense it would be in Cornwall in the countryside
I see plenty of deer
The 1971 dangerous animal act seen some owners of big cats release them into the wild. There hasn’t been wild cats in the U.K. for a very long time.
There have ben instances of groups releasing big cats in the UK to organise illegal big cat hunts. I am sure that a raid found lynxes in a barn in a place called Brighouse near Leeds . Maybe two decades ago. Most legally held cats are kept in very secure places, it tends to be illegally obtained ones. If all big cats are accounted for it will be released for purposes like hunting it by sickos. Scotland has a wild cat but is not huge.
We do have the Scottish wild cat but there rare and smaller beautiful ears..
How does a biologist get so many facts wrong?
Have you tried pitching your shark idea to the bbc?
Lets not forget Forest believed a guy in a scarf and sunglasses from USA was the first person to have photos of a Thylacine 😂
There was an amnesty in the early 80's for big cats, many of the big cat owners couldn't bring themselves to giving up their animals, so they set them free in the countryside, you fucking idiot Americans
Not all big cat sightings are black… that is until the press gets a hold of the story!
Also, the sightings started in the 1070s when the dangerous animal act came into being. Many were illegally released as the zoos couldn't take any more. Several puma and linx were captured at the time but not enough to account for all the cats that had been in private ownership.
Facts: It was legal (and popular) to own big cats in the 1960's. In the 70's it became illegal to own them. However, in the 1980's it became illegal to just release them. Therefore, we went through a decade of people just releasing big cats in the UK. I have seen one in the Fens where I grew up
Many species people associate with africa today such as lions and hyena were infact native to europe including the british isles some 10000 years ago. We even have the cave paintings to prove it.