Comments on: Early Reports of Kanahar Cougars

By: stevedad

stevedad — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:18:19 +0000

My son is stationed in Panjwai and told me he had the same experience while on guard duty two weeks ago. A large cat he described as a puma climbed up on the guard tower he was on. It was only four or five feet away from when he noticed it. It looked at him for a moment and he held still . The cat then just climbed back down and left. He described it as a striped cat about the size of a dog.

By: Reverend

Reverend — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:16:33 +0000

Do the Afghans have zoos? I wouldn’t be too surprised to discover that tigers and other large cats had been released as a sneaky and diabolic plan to pester/eat US troops!

By: kryptos006

kryptos006 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:04:11 +0000

Those photos look credible, but unfortunately there is no measurable point on the landscape that would be conclusive in order for one to calculate a size of the animal in subject. The holy grail of ABC photos would have that sort of an object in it.

By: watn6789

watn6789 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:33:00 +0000

Someone needed to bring up Caspian tigers…

By: sidwills

sidwills — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:37:57 +0000

Thermal and IR imagers are notorious for a lack of depth perception and making it difficult to judge scale, which could go some way to explaining the overestimated size.

By: Artem

Artem — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:57:32 +0000

Caracal was the thing I thought of when read previous post, but one of the solder mentioned that the cats had striped hides, and caracals have uniform coloration, plus they have distinctive hair tufts on the tips of their ears.

Still I think the cats are caracals, as far as I know there are not any other desert cats in that part of the world.