Lots of Panthers and One Wolf

Is that for real Zig?

There's one bit in the article that makes no sense to me. The bloke claims there was loads of mauled sea gulls, the cat's last meal, with guts hanging out, but the cat has clearly been rotting a while, and in that time many a scavenger would have turned up to munch the sea gulls, so either the story is fake, or I reckon the man's made some incorrect assumptions.

 

The seagull bit makes no sense to me either, a cat can catch one bird, but the others don't wait around while he finishes the first one.

I suspect he might have been eating a load of poisoned birds & that in turn killed him.

 

Whoa scareybut interesting.....

 

I reckon the sea gull bit might have been a fox. A cat will make one kill for dinner. A fox likes to fill the larder so it will, if it can, kill everything and just come back for it as and when.

Still, sea gulls are pretty agile creatures. You need one super fast predator to catch more than a couple in one go.

I do think there are more interesting things in the wild than 'officially' documented. The fact is wild animals are just so brilliant at hiding, if they don't want you to see them, usually you wont. I've seen a fox disappear into thin air, and on another occassion when out on a bike ride with my dad, he stopped me and pointed and whispered 'there's a deer'. I stared at some trees for ages, before realising there was a deer right where I was staring, in plain view yet almost impossible for the eye to pick out. Once I'd clocked it it just kind of appeared. Then after a few more seconds, the trees either side of it just sort of turned into more deer and I realised it was actually a whole herd. And no, there was no happy baccy or anything involved, just the deer were so well blended into the scenery, they were effectively hidden in plain view.

With animals being so good at just blending in, how can anyone be sure they know exactly what's out there?

 

It could have been the other way round. The seagulls were feeding off the dead cat and as Clueless suggested a fox has then attacked the birds.