A BBC website stated in late August 2012 that "A couple who claimed to
have seen an animal which looked like a lion in an Essex field have said
they believe the creature is still at large. A search for the "very large animal" seen near Earl Hall
Drive in St Osyth, near Clacton-on-Sea, at about 19:00 BST on Sunday was
called off on Monday".
Earlier this year, a similar search for a big cat in Southampton was called off when the supposed feline was a life size cuddly toy tiger that was blown over from the down draft of the helicopter.
But is there any truth to big cats wandering around the British Isles?
Alien or Anomalous Big Cats, or ABCs, is the term given to the members of the Felidae family that do not originate in the British Isles but are thought to inhabit the British Isles. These ABCs may include lions, tigers, leopards, panthers, pumas and black cats. Why are there here? Is it because they are the remnants of fauna from before the last ice age or have they have escaped from private collections?
Having a big cat or a collection of wild animals was thought to be a huge status symbol in the past; there were lions kept in the Royal Menagerie at The Tower of London from 1235 to the private zoos of the aristocracy. Phyllis Gordon taking her pet cheetah for a walk in 1939.
So why are there, potentially, cats of a larger persuasion out in the countryside of the United Kingdom, see part two of Alien Big Cats (coming soon).
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