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KYBowhunter89

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I took a picture of this cat while hunting public land (Pennyrile State Forest) in western Kentucky last fall. Keep in mind it was about 6:00 a.m. and i was ~25+ feet up in the tree. It didn't have the face of a bobcat at all, no whiskers like a bobcat and it was a solid color. If anyone could make a definite identification it would be great. :thumbs_up
 
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It's an ALIEN!!!!
 
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It looked right at me and first thing that came to mind was cougar...wish i woulda got a face pic. It only stayed around for about 30 seconds and the tail is longer than what it shows in the pic, it was kinda tucked up under it/blending in with the ground in that pic I took...i still really have no idea as to which it was.
 
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It looked grayish/tan...it would be cooler if it was a cougar lol
There's just not a high population of either around western Kentucky, I have heard cougar stories though, maybe that's why I jumped to that conclusion.
 
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That is a bobcat. If you look at the flanks, you can make out some light spotting. A cougar isn't going to have its tail tucked up underneath it like that either. Bobcats can have a tail that is a few inches long. The head shape is really bobcat too.
 
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It really looks like a bobcat to me. They have much longer tails than most people expect, and a lion's tail is way larger than you'd expect. Think rope in gym class in diameter. Even young lions. (Although young lion's tails are proportionally shorter than an adult.) The coloring looks like that of a bobcat, appears to have some spotting on the sides. You wouldn't notice the faint spots on a lion kitten in that dark light, it'd just look really dark in color. The proportions of the cat look like an adult cat. Young cougars are just like the young of anything, relatively oversized head, and relatively stocky in appearance. Young cougars especially look stocky because they appear to be all fur. This animal looks pretty sleek, another clue it's a bobcat. Cool sighting but more than likely it's a bobcat. My .02 for what it's worth.
 
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