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The Beast of Bodmin is a phantom wild cat (or possibly a number of them) which ranges extensively in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings and reports of inexplicably slain livestock, and the alleged leopard-like cats of the region came to be popularly known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor. Eventually the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food decided to conduct an official investigation in 1995. The study's findings decided there was "no verifiable evidence" of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species. The report did accept that "the investigation could not prove that a 'big cat' is not present." |
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The Beast of Bodmin is a [phantom wild cat]? (or possibly a number of them) which ranges extensively in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock: the alleged leopard-like cats of the soon region came to be popularly and alliteratively known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor. Eventually the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food decided to conduct an official investigation in 1995. The study's findings decided there was "no verifiable evidence" of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species. The report did accept that "the investigation could not prove that a 'big cat' is not present." |
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Sightings of the Beast of Bodmin Moor still continue. In October 1997, officials from Newquay? Zoo claimed to identify pawprints left in mud to the south of Bodmin Moor as the tracks of a puma. Soon after that discovery, an alleged photograph of the Bodmin Beast materialised, purporting to show an adult female puma. The authenticity of this piece of evidence remains unconfirmed. It is also worth noting that Britain passed the Dangerous Wild Animals Act in 1976, prohibiting the keeping of dangerous wild animals without a licence. It has been suggested that many owners of such animals, unable to comply with the expensive terms of a licence and reluctant to have their pets destroyed, released their animals into the wild. |
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Sightings of the Beast of Bodmin Moor still continue. In October 1997, officials from Newquay? Zoo claimed to identify pawprints left in mud to the south of Bodmin Moor as the tracks of a puma. Soon after that discovery, an alleged photograph of the Bodmin Beast materialised, purporting to show an adult female puma. The authenticity of this piece of evidence remains unconfirmed. |
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