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The Surrey Puma was one or more phantom cats reported in south western Surrey and an adjoining part of Hampshire from 1959 to the present year. ==Sightings and potential damage== The Surrey Puma refers to a clutch of sightings reported to police and newspapers of phantom cats categorised into slightly larger than domestic cats resembling Iberian lynxes to reports of large black cats from an early stage so identified in the press and by some sighters, as pumas: in the wild, barring escapees, a Pan-American genus. By the mid-1960s records included: *A plaster cast of a paw print less than five inches handed into Godalming Police Station where it was the public display piece of a minor priority 'big cats' file that centred on damage to livestock *A 1966, black-and-white photograph of a longer than usual cat by a former police photographer, Ian Pert next to a house in Worplesdon. There followed an 18 year-hiatus in non-testimonial allegations with corroboratory evidence until a report to police with a hair sample of a puma taken from Peaslake, in the heavily wooded part of Greensand Ridge. Twenty-one years after this a colour video was recorded of a cat or big cat walking away beneath a branch. A Surrey Wildlife Trust officer in the local press at the time considered the animal filmed was not a "Surrey Puma" as the woman recording thought but was consistent with an Iberian Lnyx, assessing this and the organisation's own reports of that year in its ranges in the borough to the north, the Borough of Guildford. The video was taken at Winkworth Arboretum (NT), Busbridge in the south-west of Surrey. The loosely corroborated sightings have been in south western Surrey (and one in a neighbouring part of Hampshire) from 1959 until about 2005. Anonymous and vague sightings in Surrey have been reported to the police, the local and national press sporadically since 1959. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Surrey Puma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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