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3:56 pm
June 21, 2009
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alicat
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A volunteer at a Florida swamp sanctuary filmed the first clear video of a Florida panther in the wild.
http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article1011016.ece
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5:39 pm
June 21, 2009
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Leslie
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Thanks for the link alicat ! I think this is great. I would love to see one of these in the wild like that, but I don't know what I'd do. Part of me would be so excited to be seeing it, and part of me would want to get away from it so as not to become it's next meal! They are so beutiful.
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5:44 pm
June 21, 2009
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Mary
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Wow… that's cool! Let's see someone call THAT a housecat! LOL!
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"Quando omni flunkus moritati" ("When all else fails, play dead") – Possum Lodge motto. Jason and Grant should adopt it as their own.
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6:01 pm
June 21, 2009
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alicat
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Mary,
I thought you'd like that! 
Leslie,
I agree. I felt the same way until I read the woman's story that followed this volunteer's. Yikes! Can you imagine the terror she must have felt? I would still think it would be wonderful to see one in the wild anyway. 
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10:36 pm
June 21, 2009
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Revenant
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Funny you mention the Florida Panther. This afternoon, I just finished up a new article for the website on cryptozoology. If Logisti likes it, it may be out soon. Anyway, I talked a bit about the Thylacine (or Tasmanian Tiger) and how the last known one died in 1936. I relate the notion of conversation towards today and the Florida Panther. The article mentions that there's around 100. Actually only 50-70 are adults. The rest are rather young and the survival rate for young cats isn't the greatest.
Here's a really good website about the Florida Panther:
http://myfwc.com/panther/
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"Skepticism is not a position, it's a process." -Dr Michael Shermer
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3:24 am
June 22, 2009
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dr_peter_venkman
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Nice. Now that is an example of credible photographic evidence. It is very much unlike all of the other fodder that is offered as evidence we tend to see.
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Hee hee hee! "Get her!" That was your whole plan, huh, "get her." Very scientific.
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7:00 am
June 22, 2009
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Harry
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Video that clear and convincing would go a long way toward convincing skeptics like me that Bigfoot is real.
It's amazing that with all the video cameras out there that no one has come up with better photographic evidence than the 1967 Patterson film.
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8:01 am
June 22, 2009
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Learjet
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My cat was looking around for the other cat when I played caterwauling file LOL.
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9:18 am
June 22, 2009
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blinddog
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We have a similar creature here in the Carolinas.
They're called the Carolina Panthers.
These are very seasonable animals.
They usually start appearing sometime in mid-August, struggle for survival though the Fall and early Winter and are usually extinct by January.
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Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.
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10:16 am
June 22, 2009
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alicat
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Blinddog,
Well at least they are around until January! We're not so lucky up here. Ours swoops in and leaves in December. I do hear we're meeting with your Panthers 9/13.
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11:08 am
June 22, 2009
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blinddog
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Better here than there, ya'll get too mean up in Philly.
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Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.
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11:21 am
June 22, 2009
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alicat
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Whoa! You talkin' about me BD50?! 
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11:22 am
June 22, 2009
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Revenant
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Harry said:
Video that clear and convincing would go a long way toward convincing skeptics like me that Bigfoot is real.
It's amazing that with all the video cameras out there that no one has come up with better photographic evidence than the 1967 Patterson film.
Absolutely. Here we have film of one of the most endangered large animals in the US, if not the most endangered. We can see the animal clearly. We can tell what it is, how it moves, and what it's doing.
Personally, I don't know what to make of the Patterson film. I've seen that clip examined on many shows in many different ways. Some point to a hoax. Some point to it being geniune. Either way, its been forty-two years since that film was taken. That's an awfully long time with no credible video evidence. Especially considering all the searches and all the people looking for it. Not to mention the monetary incentive to capture footage of the creature.
It will be interesting to see if cryptozoological websites use this footage as a springboard into "the possibility of filming something rare." To give those "hope" in filming something like Bigfoot or Champ. Yes, hope does spring eternal. Yet, filming an animal actually verified by science is a little easier to do. Just sayin'…
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"Skepticism is not a position, it's a process." -Dr Michael Shermer
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12:42 pm
June 22, 2009
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blinddog
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alicat said:
Whoa! You talkin' about me BD50?!
ali, it's been almost 41 years and I think Santa is still pissed.
When I first saw this thread, I thought it was about the Florida Panther hockey team.
One of their rare fans had been caught on videotape.
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1:53 pm
June 22, 2009
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alicat
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Blinddog,
Think you're right about Santa. That's one of the reasons I don't enjoy sitting in the snow in the stadium. Here's a link you should read – check out paragraph 7. It was written in 2005 but somewhat sums things up. http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/morris/050131
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