Beast of Bodmin Moor and Beast of Exmoor
Beast from Bodmin Moor
The Bodmin Moor Beast is a member of the Alien Big Cats from Bodmin Moor in Cornwall in Great Britain . The existence of such a beast has not yet been proven. The beast is held responsible for the loss of hundreds of sheep and other animals, most of which have had their throats bitten through. The descriptions show a large cat in the shape of a puma or leopard with black, gray or yellow-brown fur.
In October 1997, footprints were discovered in Bodmin Moor which, according to employees of Newquay Zoo, can clearly be assigned to a puma with a young animal.
Beast of Exmoor
In Exmoor , which in the counties of Devon and Somerset is located, has been around since the 1970s also reports of unknown animals. In 1983, South Molton farmer Eric Ley lost over a hundred sheep in three months. All animals died from the massive bite wounds on the throat.
Both photos and films were taken showing the beasts. However, they are either too indistinct to identify them unequivocally as large cats of prey, or the images have no clues from which to estimate the size of the animals.
After the beasts were spotted and the attacks increased in 1988, the Ministry of Agriculture ordered snipers from the Royal Marines to the Exmoor. Although some of the soldiers sighted animals, no shot could be fired and after the number of sightings decreased, the snipers were withdrawn.
Possible explanations
The sightings could simply have been misidentified. It is therefore about domestic cats and runaway dogs, to which the attacks on the animals are attributed.
It could also be runaway big cats that survived individually or in a small population. Some people kept leopards or pumas as pets until the 1970s. Escaped animals and abandoned animals under the stricter animal husbandry law passed in 1976 could be responsible for the sightings.
Web links
- The Beast of Bodmin Moor (English)
- Beast of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sean O'Neill: Beast of Bodmin is alive and breeding . In: The Daily Telegraph , October 18, 1997 (accessed December 30, 2008)