White-tipped tail?
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From: Cheque
20-Aug-12
A friend of mine got a picture on his trail camera of some animal that defies immediate identification but from all the signs its a couger. A little rare for NW Pennsylvania but I have heard of other sightings. The thing that's throwing us off is whatever it is has a tail with a white tip instead of the black tip you'd expect to see. Can lions have white- tipped tails?
From: Jim B
20-Aug-12
I've not seen one.They are usually black tipped.Post the picture.
From: azdogman
20-Aug-12
Never seen one. I doubt it
From: Cheque
20-Aug-12
I just saw a printed picture. I'll try to find one I can post.
From: IdyllwildArcher
20-Aug-12
Do you have ringtails up there?
From: IdyllwildArcher
20-Aug-12
IdyllwildArcher's Link
I've seen these twice where I live, but SoCal's a long way from Pennsylvania
From: Jim B
20-Aug-12
I'd really like to see the picture.Honestly,I can't think of a single time I had a lion on camera,even the fuzziest IR,pictures,that I had to wonder if it was a lion or not. [IMG]http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a140/jbrandenburg/PICT0015-2.jpg[/IMG]
From: Jim B
20-Aug-12
Sorry,here's the pic.
From: Stick1
21-Aug-12
No doubt about it...that's a lion
From: Coyote 65
21-Aug-12
It has a black tip on the tail.
Terry
From: bghunter
21-Aug-12
Yep that is a Lion and as Coyote said the tail is black.
From: Jim B
21-Aug-12
Yes but guys,that's just a picture I put up there as an example.We have yet to see Cheque's picture.Maybe we never will?
From: HeavyDuty
28-Nov-17
Cougar or Mountain Lion?
North Central Kansas
Cougar or Mountain Lion?
North Central Kansas
From: Kodiak
28-Nov-17
Weeds....
From: Fulldraw1972
28-Nov-17
I see grass and corn on the ground. Is there something else?
I thought for a minute we had to wait 5 years for the picture. But it’s in Kansas and not Pa.
From: HeavyDuty
28-Nov-17
From: WFG in NM
28-Nov-17
I’ve been fortunate enough to get many pictures of lions on cams. One thing I’ve always found, is if you have to try and convince yourself it’s a lion it probably isn’t. With the amount of people that hunt with hounds, and set cams back east, don’t you think there would be a lion treed or unquestionable evidence?
—Bill
From: WFG in NM
28-Nov-17
Does his neighbor have a golden retriever?
—Bill
From: LINK
29-Nov-17
Cougar or lion? I’d say if it one it’s likely the other.
From: Brotsky
29-Nov-17
Heavy duty...that's a house cat.
From: Kodiak
29-Nov-17
House cat? Where, all I see is weeds.
From: Brotsky
29-Nov-17
Right here....looks like a house cat with its head turned away slightly behind its body. My bad outlining skills....
From: Treeline
29-Nov-17
Doesn’t look like a lion to me
From: sticksender
29-Nov-17
My guess is dog.....80 pounder.A few other pics from that camera with other animals would be helpful though.
From: Beav
29-Nov-17
I'm with Brodsky, looks like a yellow house cat.
From: Carcajou
29-Nov-17
Red Fox, ( not the actor)...
From: loesshillsarcher
29-Nov-17
white thing looks like vegetation. and the other appears dog like to me
From: Z Barebow
29-Nov-17
If there is a lion in Heavy's pic, I am a dead man because I don't see it.
From: Kodiak
29-Nov-17
I think I see Waldo.
From: GF
29-Nov-17
But it doesn’t really matter on a 5-year-old thread, does it?
Maybe it’s just the low res of the phone screen? I thought I saw something cat-like (puddy tat?) in the first rendition of that photo, but without anything for scale, hard to know.
But JMO, if there ever was a pic of a “lion” with a white tip on its tail, it was just ol’ Morris out for a stroll....
From: sticksender
29-Nov-17
GF, yes a 2012 thread, but I believe all the replies are about the new photo from a different state, posted yesterday.
From: Dirk Diggler
29-Nov-17
The funny thing is a picture was posted yesterday from a 5 + year old camera and posted on a 5 year old thread.
Wow talk about low def. Even selfie cameras take better pics then that.
