If photographic evidence demonstrates otherwise, I’d like to see the photo. Please email it to me at lcoleman [@] maine.rr.com Thank you.

Lions are a lot more common as captives, escapees, and in the wild, I would conjecture, than fantasy cougars in the UK. If there are modern holdouts of Pleistocene Panthera atrox, surviving cave lions, or relict Eurasian lions in the UK, they would roar too.

A breeding, escapee population of cougars/pumas/mountain lions (which scream, but do not roar) in the UK are the “new circus trains” of felid cryptid explanations.

I think it is pretty clear from the available photograph and descriptions that this was a Eurasian lynx. They have been reported and even shot before in the British Isles, yet experts from a local zoo could not draw this simple conclusion – this only fuels cover-up stories related to big cats in the UK, which I think the government is well aware of but prefers the tabloids to turn into a media circus.