Another Mystery Animal

November 9, 2006

Always a sucker for a good mystery ( Maine Mystery North Carolina Mystery ) here is a game camera photo from Wisconsin that the local newspaper, Wausau Daily Herald, is asking what is it? The animals in the running are a wolf, a cougar, or a bobcat. The staff at the paper thinks it’s either a wolf (which there has been spotted in the area) or a cougar. Responses from the readers seem to favor the bobcat option which I would concur with. The spots on the back of the legs are the give away in my opinion. Another plausible but less likely animal would be the lynx which has some similarities to the bobcat. Not knowing the height of the stump makes it hard to tell for sure. This is a photo of a lynx in captivity that I took earlier this year and the spots are clearly visible on the legs.