BCC EP:04 Big cats from the Cotswolds to Corbett’s India

Gloucestershire’s Frank Tunbridge recounts his own close-up
encounter with a big cat in the Cotswolds – he watched it snatch
some rabbit bait at dusk and it later crept behind and gave him a
warning growl. Frank then discusses the stealth of cats like
leopards and pumas and refers to the writings of Jim Corbett who
tracked leopards and tigers in India last century. 


We hear highlights from some of the witness reports Frank
receives, and the questions these beg… Are the big cats here
sometimes targeting domestic cats? And are some of the panthers
seen in Britain assumed to be black leopards but possibly
something else…? 


Word of the week: Digitigrade


1 September 2019