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Title: Bobcat, cougar crosses
Post by: HighlandLofts on August 28, 2018, 05:57:45 PM

Has any one ever seen or got a picture of a bobcat cougar cross?
On another forum I am on they have picture from a phone that might be one. If you Google
Bobcat, Cougar Cross Images
There are a lot of images. Some pretty neat looking.

I can't copy & paste or transfer the site.

Title: Re: Bobcat, cougar crosses
Post by: nwwanderer on August 28, 2018, 08:16:59 PM

Fair amount of variation in the cats but a cougar/bobcat cross probably not the cause, different genius, hybridization not likely.

Title: Re: Bobcat, cougar crosses
Post by: HighlandLofts on August 28, 2018, 08:26:48 PM

Google it and see the images. And if you can post some up.

Title: Re: Bobcat, cougar crosses
Post by: Alchase on August 28, 2018, 08:28:32 PM

No documented cases of a Cougar and Bobcat Hybrid.
Everyone that was investigated, was a abnormally large Bobcat.

Title: Re: Bobcat, cougar crosses
Post by: yakimanoob on August 29, 2018, 02:25:47 PM

Everyone (myself included) wants what they're looking at to be extraordinary.  How many stumps have you seen that look like bears or elk?  Hell, every sound I hear in the woods at night is a big hungry grizz coming after me. 

Case and point, the recent mutant wolf that was floating around the web a few months ago.  It was obviously a wolf to me, but I swear folks thought it was some crazy unknown creature. 

Every photo I could find on a google search was either clearly a bobcat, clearly a cougar, or a tropical/asiatic spotted cat (ocelots, leopards, etc).   

As the saying goes, when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras.