From martin@srv0.ems.ed.ac.uk Wed Aug 28 10:55:27 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506A044155 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:55:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:55:22 +0100 (IST) Received: from n16.grp.scd.yahoo.com (n16.grp.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.66.71]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g7S9ENZ17810 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:14:23 +0100 X-Egroups-Return: sentto-2242572-53139-1030526069-zzzz=example.com@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.196] by n16.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Aug 2002 09:14:29 -0000 X-Sender: martin@srv0.ems.ed.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 28 Aug 2002 09:14:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 31918 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2002 09:14:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Aug 2002 09:14:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO haymarket.ed.ac.uk) (129.215.128.53) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Aug 2002 09:14:28 -0000 Received: from srv0.ems.ed.ac.uk (srv0.ems.ed.ac.uk [129.215.117.0]) by haymarket.ed.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7S9ER320256 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:14:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from EMS-SRV0/SpoolDir by srv0.ems.ed.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 28 Aug 02 10:14:26 +0000 Received: from SpoolDir by EMS-SRV0 (Mercury 1.44); 28 Aug 02 10:14:08 +0000 Organization: Management School To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Message-Id: <3D6CA290.8179.2423E1FC@localhost> Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-Description: Mail message body From: "Martin Adamson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com; contact forteana-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:14:08 +0100 Subject: [zzzzteana] It's August, and big cats are on the prowl Reply-To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dogma.slashnull.org id g7S9ENZ17810 The Times August 28, 2002 It's August, and big cats are on the prowl By Alan Hamilton ROUND up the sheep. Pull on the gauntlets. Oil the shotgun. The British countryside is crawling with pumas, black panthers, fen tigers and other big, vicious cats. No corner of the nation is safe. Evidence released yesterday, including sightings, photographs, paw prints, livestock kills and hair samples, claims to prove that every county has big cats lurking in its undergrowth, poised to pounce on man and beast alike. Sightings have reached record levels in 2002, according to Daniel Bamping, founder of the British Big Cats Society, which in the past 12 months has received more than 800 reports of big cat sightings. “During the first six months we have seen an incredible amount of big cat activity. We have now had reports in every single county; the response from the public has been fantastic,” Mr Bamping said. “Big cats in Britain are real. They are out there, they are breeding; there’s more of them.” Scotland and Gloucestershire are said to be hotspots of big cat activity. Mark Fraser, who heads the society’s Scottish arm, said: “Lynx are now present in the Scottish countryside; I believe they are established and breeding. I don’t want to hazard a guess at the numbers; suffice it to say there are several hotspots, notably Fife, Aberdeenshire, Inverness and the Borders.” Next month the society plans to unveil its full dossier of evidence, which includes two dead wild cats, pictures of paw prints and tree scratchings, as well as stories of a horse strangely lacerated in West Wales and a man in Gravesham, Kent, who had to beat a hasty retreat to his garage after his hand was cut by a creature the size of a labrador dog, except that it had black hairy tufts on the tips of its ears. The society is taking the sightings seriously. It plans to set up a network of trigger-cameras throughout the country to capture further evidence of the beasts, which it will then present to the Government. It is not, however, clear on what it wants the Government to do about it all. Throwing its weight behind the pro-hunting lobby might be a start. Next in August: record abductions by aliens. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: forteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/