Wildlife in your country

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 22:21

Well, here's something funny (still) I want to share with us, because it's one of the topics that is being discussed in Poland, formerly in local newspapers only, now it's popular subject. In southern Poland someone spot black huge cat walking slowly through meadow. Not much time passed when several farmers reported killed livestock... Vets confirmed. Large cat is preying in forests... Soon dead doe has been found. Someone spotted another huge cat, this time light-brown. Another pig killed. Another witness. First youtube video. Experts say: it's probably puma. Gossips surface that there was illegal breeding of wild cats in northern Czech and 5 of them escaped somehow. Another video. This time more clear. And cat looks more like lioness. But what with black one? No one knows. Is there one? Two? Five. People are afraid of walking outside towns, not to mention ones living in rural areas. Authorities dont know exactly what to do with the problem. Send hunters? Set traps? Kitty has become sorta a mascot of the region. Topic is hot, first tourists are on their way with full safari equipment (digital camera + binoculars).

Any African fauna in your country?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4X75DV0AoI

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:30

Sounds like a horror movie in the making.

Post by **Chroelle** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 17:31

Well we had a moose drop by some years ago, because Øresund (the sea between Denmark and Sweden) was gapped with ice, but that is about as interesting as it gets in little Denmark.
Some reports of big snakes let loose in nature has been out there, but they all either die off quickly or get caught.

Pager · Post by **Pager** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:14

Well, I almost ran over a coyote with my car the other day, pulling onto the freeway. It isn't too rare to find coyotes where I grew up, but this was in Toronto, a city of 2.5 million people.

Recently there have been coyotes seen on the beaches, and people report that their dogs have been going missing. So it's been coming a real interesting problem because everyone wants to get rid of them, but the animal right's activists are screaming about how unfair it is to the animals.