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DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside
The DNA of a big cat in the Panthera genus – probably a leopard – has been identified from a swab taken from a dead sheep in the Lake District. This is the first time that big cat DNA has been found on a carcass in the UK.
Allaby has previously identified a bit of a claw that was sent to him from someone who wished to remain anonymous from the north of England as also belong to a cat in the Panthera genus. Allaby started up the testing service 12 years ago when a roe deercarcass that had been scavenged was discovered in a small valley near Stroud in Gloucestershire. Larkin-Snowden told Rick Minter’s Big Cat Conversations podcast that she chanced across the dead sheep one morning in October last year.
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