![]() Getting a report on almost a fortnightly basis strikes me as fairly impressive and may even mean that big cats are the most commonly reported mammal in the north east but even that has been blown away by the number of reports that have come my way recently. When I did an initial analysis in 2007 for the Big Cats in Britain yearbook I only had 65 reports to base it on, which means I’ve received around 25 reports per year over the past three years. This works out at around 15 reports a year though the rate of reports has accelerated somewhat in recent years. The analysis is based on 134 sightings where I had enough information to put a dot on a map, though in all I reckoned that I’d received a total of around 150 reports. ![]() However at the end I attempted a short analysis of what all the reports that I have received might be telling us about big cats in the north east (I’m tempted to say it’s worth buying it just for that but I think I would be over-egging the pudding somewhat). The bulk of the book is a compilation of all of the Big Cat Diary entries for the past 10 years, so if you are one of those organised people who keeps every back copy neatly filed away then you probably don’t need to buy it. I’ve been busy the past couple of months putting the final touches to “The Path of the Panther”, my short book on big cat sightings in the north east. ![]() It is an axiom of any research that it is out of date the moment it is committed to paper. I can’t vouch for the contents but the front cover is definitely made up ![]()
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