West Midland big cat sighting reported to police
A series of reports in the West Midlands have been reported to the police, and have fuelled another bite of “big cat fever“. Having investigated some of these reports over the years, I think it is very likely that there is a small breeding colony of big cats of some species in the region. The most interesting thing to me, to find out what species they actually are, and most importantly of all, what the effect is on of them upon the local ecosystem. We wiped out all our major predators centuries ago, the last one to go being the Gray wolf in the 16th century and in Ireland in the 17th century, and before that the Eurasian lynx between 400 and 800 years before. so we have a very unnatural ecosystem with lacks large predator, and my suspicion is that if the ecosystem now has a large predator in the shape of pumas or black leopards, it is actually going to repair the ecosystem, rather than do it any harm. JD
