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Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma
10/10/05 12:53 AM

Last Update: Sunday, October 9, 2005. 8:37am (AEST)
Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma

A Melbourne man believes he has proof that a long-standing myth about the existence of big cats in the Victorian countryside is true.

Kurt Engel of Noble Park shot dead what is believed to be a black puma near Sale in East Gippsland in June.

Experts are conducting tests to confirm the identity of the big cat.

Mr Engel says farmers have seen big cats before but until now there has been no proof of their existence.

"Up until now it was just a myth, it's like, it might be like Big Foot," he said.

"People [have] seen them but never really can prove it but now it's come through, it did happen.

"I shot one and they do exist," Mr Engel said.

Rumours of big cats being spotted roaming in Gippsland and the Grampians have been rife since the 1970s.

One theory suggests that United States troops introduced the animals during World War II, eventually dumping their ex-mascots in the bush.

Some have dismissed the big cat stories as urban legend but an academic from Deakin University revealed last year that the stories were plausible.

Dr John Henry conducted research into the issue in the 1970s and told the ABC last year that he had "concluded that it was beyond reasonable doubt that there was a population of big cats in the Grampians at that time".

"If we were able to dismiss any account by another explanation that didn't require the invention of some exotic animal, we went for that every time," Dr Henry told ABC South-West Victoria.

"At the end of that there were four eyewitness accounts that we really couldn't knock over."

Dr Henry said that the population may have survived and even spread since the 1970s.

"If there are pumas in the Grampians - and we believe there's a strong case for that - then they would have bred up, they would have then moved out into adjacent suitable habitat," he said.
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Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	NitroX	10/10/05 12:53 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	Alpine_Hunter	22/10/05 12:05 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	EricD	27/10/05 06:42 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	03/11/05 02:32 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	03/11/05 11:32 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	Bushie	04/11/05 01:24 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	500Nitro	04/11/05 03:57 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	Bushie	04/11/05 11:58 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	05/11/05 12:33 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	Marrakai	03/11/05 07:31 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	08/11/05 03:22 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	08/11/05 03:31 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	AdamTayler	13/11/05 02:54 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	AspenHill	13/11/05 10:56 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	13/11/05 07:08 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	14/11/05 01:19 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	14/11/05 02:10 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	rgp	05/11/05 03:52 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	Photos	08/11/05 05:42 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	rgp	13/11/05 07:22 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	Bushie	03/11/05 08:25 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	500Nitro	03/11/05 11:23 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	velodog	22/10/05 04:36 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	23/10/05 12:05 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	velodog	23/10/05 04:54 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	18/10/05 09:39 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	500Nitro	18/10/05 10:20 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	EricD	21/10/05 05:40 PM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	ALAN_MCKENZIE	20/10/05 12:27 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	Taos	19/10/05 03:27 AM
Re: Shooter says he bagged 'urban legend' puma	RLI	19/10/05 08:32 AM
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