What sort of animal is in this video?

[Miss Chicken]

Like many places on the world, Australia has its tales of large panther-like animal roaming around.

Recently this footage was taken of what the cameraman says is a large cat i.e panther.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmtkBBnWv28[/yt]



I think that, besides showing that the cameraman needs to take lessons on how to use his camera, it looks to me more like a dark fox. What do you think - panther, normal domestic cat, Fox or something else?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Hmmm, I'd say fox. Black fox. The brush seemed to be there, and its gait and the way it holds itself looks dog-like, not feline, to me....

 

[ThankQ]

I think the video is being bombarded right now, so I couldn't load the whole thing.

From what I did see, the posture and motion seemed more canine than feline.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Swamp gas.

Oh.

It looked like a dog to me, but who can tell from that distance and with Paul Greengrass having a seizure on a helicopter in a tornado working the shaky cam?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

... with Paul Greengrass having a seizure on a helicopter in a tornado working the shaky cam?

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I'm going with fox. I couldn't tell what was its head and what was its tail, but that is probably a good clue. A panther would have a much skinnier tale, and this one appeared quite full at both ends. Plus the fact that the cameraman refused to hold his camera still so we could get a good look is maybe a tip off that he was trying to just pump up his claim rather than get some real proof.

 

[M'Sharak]

Like many places on the world, Australia has its tales of large panther-like animal roaming around.

Recently this footage was taken of what the cameraman says is a large cat i.e panther.


I think that, besides showing that the cameraman needs to take lessons on how to use his camera, it looks to me more like a dark fox. What do you think - panther, normal domestic cat, Fox or something else?

Difficult to get a sense of size at all from that, but the shape is more that of a canine than a feline of any size.

 

[T'Baio]

Jeez, that could be an ant on the lens.

 

[ThankQ]

Jeez, that could be an ant on the lens.

The focus is about right for that.

 

[judge alba]

We get the odd story or two come up in the local press of a Panther type animal roaming where I live. always results in calls to the local zoo about if they have got one or ever had one missing
as to the film. Looks like a border collie to be but black. definitely doesn't look very cat like to me

 

[Finn]

Looks like a fox

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It looks like the famous Beast of Bodmin.

More from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_cat

 

[Lindley]

I'm really tempted to try running that through an image stabilization algorithm just to see if there's enough data there to do anything.....

 

[ManOnTheWave]

CHUPACABRA!!!!

 

[RJDiogenes]

It's Coyote again, up to his old tricks.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Looks like a weasel or so to me, maybe even a squirrel, I really don't think it's a "big cat".

 

[Trekker4747]

Christ! Was that video filmed by a Parkinson's patient who also had epilepsy?

The actors from The Blair Witch project are watching that going, "Dude?! Don't you know how to hold a fucking camera?"


As for the "creature" in the video. Don't know, don't care.

The first person though who cries chupacabra will get smacked.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

^That would be Manonthewave.

I'm a dirty snitch.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Definitely a fox.

 

[WillsBabe]

Difficult to tell, but looks fox-like to me, too.