Escaped Melanistic F1 Savannah in Scotland?
There might be an escaped F1 melanistic Savannah cat roaming around Scotland, near St. Andrews. I'll tell you why it is a possibility. The local press is talking about a black "big cat" on the loose (see Fife Today ). The word "big cat" is used loosely to! Because a father and son were out for a walk near St. Andrews when from a distance of 35 feet (fairly close so the sighting was good) they saw "a big black cat". It was the size of a small Labrador they added. There is a difference between a "big black cat" and a "black big cat"! Big cats are usually one of the top four biggest wildcats: jaguar, leopard, lion and tiger. A genuine black big cat is likely to be a melanistic leopard or jaguar (euphemistically called black panthers ). These are large animals considerably larger than a normal or large labrador. Labradors vary in size but at the shoulder a small Labrador might be about 21 inches tall. The world's tallest do