Lots of folks on social media are weighing-in with their thoughts. Some believe it’s a mountain lion.
What do you see?
A game trail cam pointing into the woods behind a home near Hazel Green High School in Madison County captured the image of a cat earlier this month.
The question is: What species is it?
And lots of folks on social media are weighing-in with their thoughts. Some believe it’s a mountain lion.
WAAY 31 took the photo to state wildlife biologists to get their expert opinions Friday.
Biologists believe the grainy image is 100 percent that of a bobcat, a common wild cat found throughout Alabama.
Bobcats are often mistaken for cougars, also called pumas and mountain lions, but there has not been a verified, reliable sighting of a cougar in Alabama in more than 70 years.
But that hasn’t stopped the legend of the Alabama cougar from staying alive and well.
“We get a lot of questions every week about big cats in Alabama," Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division Conservation Outreach Coordinator Marianne Hudson told WAAY 31 Friday.
Emails and calls come into the state’s wildlife office from people across Alabama who swear they captured proof of a cougar in the wild.
“People are quite often used to seeing things that are certain size in a certain shape from a certain distance which gives them a perspective and we’re not perspective is skewed you can easily give an illusion that the animals larger or smaller than other than it actually is," Hudson said.
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