Since it said Resembling. We may not be looking at a Ordinary feline we know.. It could be a new Speicies, new Hybrid/unknown to science. Call me Crazy, but i’m always thinking about Smilodon and others of it’s kind. so any unknown cat or a cat resembling another it comes to my brain that i can be a smilodon of the modern times or others of it’s kind.

It could even be a smilodon hybrid with a known feline.. XD

i would love to see a Lion or Lioness hybrid with a Smilodon or it’s kind. can be called a Smilion.

Liondon, or Tigdon, Smiloger, XD…

for all we know we don’t even know how they look. they could of had a mane like a lion. they could of been yellow, brown, orange, white, black, blue, red, pink, green…etc. noticing cats for instance all colors from black, orange, yellow, gray, beige, bald, dirty pale yellow in which i describe a Siamese cat. from spots to stripes.

smilodon and it’s kind could be a dalmatian of the feline kind.

maybe the males had manes and females didn’t. maybe they not feline XD just a open thought there.

I’m curious about the description given of the cat. The witness said it “resembled” a mountain lion, and that seems very cryptic to me. Are they suggesting it was a mountain lion, or are there any details pointing to another type of big cat? By the witness’s account, he saw it “plain as day”, and that leads me to think they’d have an idea what kind of cat it was. So what was it, a mountain lion or something else?

Europeans started settling on Long Island in 1641 and of course, they weren’t known for respecting local wildlife and habitat. Deer (primary food for lions) were virtually extinct on the island by 1890 and had to be reintroduced in the 1920s. Given the loss of deer, the population density and conversion of much of the island to agricultural production, I don’t think there is any way wild lions could have survived on the island up to today.

The deer have rebounded but then they will thrive in a suburban environment. I believe hunting for deer on the island is virtually non-existent. Today, there are some wildlife refuges and nice wooded areas on the island. Maybe enough to hide an individual cougar for a time, but certainly not enough for a wild, breeding population to remain undetected. The Adirondacks is a much more likely habitat for wild cougars to occur.

Folks on Long Island – how wild are your “wild areas”? It would be interesting to contrast them to the wild areas of places like Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas and the far western states.