Outdoor Pictures
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Cap coming in Nuking this place!!!!
I have about 25,000 pics on my iPad. And that’s only a portion of what I have on my laptop. Of course they aren’t all outdoors pics.
Ok I have to ask....do you have any good pictures of the black cat....like no mistaking what the image is pictures? I ask because melanistic cats are extremely rare where it is known to exist.....and the rates match the habitat black cats are found almost exclusively in jungle environments with shaded canopies that are completely different than the habitat they are always spotted in the US. Max rates outside of jungles are 10% in cats that are known for it for like jaguars and leopards (the exception is the jagarundi with rates as high as 80% but seeing one of those period in the US is extremely rare and there no confirmed sightings outside the extreme southern part of states that border Mexico) . So unless rural America is an anomaly of all observed big cat data while simultaneously having more cameras up than anywhere ever there aren't black cats running around. Bobcats can be so it could happen.....they have a rate of 0.5%...google says 18% of bobcats reach 1 year old....so at best 1 in 1000 bobcats are black and make it to adulthood (ignoring that a black kitten would be more prone to predation) so maybe one sees one but it's a gigantic maybe. I have and have been around predator hunters my entire adult life and don't know of one being taken. That being said bobcats are smaller than the one pictured....a giant one weighs 50 pounds......and distinctively have no tail thus making them identifiable. The North American cougar and all it's sub species have zero recorded instances of melanistic fur....cougars aren't the same genus as the others listed above they just aren't black. Decades of study and being hunted as a species to threatened numbers has never produced one but every time someone says they saw a big cat there is always a black one running around. Somebody would have good pics a carcass, or a kitten by now. If you really have one figure out how to prove it cause you will make history as you either have a bobcat that is 3x bigger than they are known to be, a jaguar 1000 miles from known range, or the first of it's kind.
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If I had a picture I would post it. I’ve seen the black cat twice, he’s cougar sized with a long tail. In case you didn’t know cats don’t generally wait around for you to get the camera out.
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Bet that took a minute to real in.
It took an hour and twenty minutes. 130 lb. test line. It was the most exhausted I have ever been in my life. It initially stripped off bout a half mile of line. I worked most of it back onto the reel over the next 30 minutes. It then pulled that much off again. It took 40 minutes to get it back the second time. Then the gears stripped out in the reel as I got it close to the boat. The deck hand grabbed the line and he and the captain pulled it in the last 50 yards. The fish was dead and I had doubts about myself.
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