While its accuracy is unofficial, it appears to reveal a muscular cat looking like a panther in meadow.
It functions in Panthera Britannia Declassified, a brand-new Amazon Prime documentary, checking out huge cats in Britain.
It would be uncommon not least due to the fact that the majority of the sightings to date have actually been deep in backwoods, such as the famous Beast of Bodmin Moor and the Beast of Exmoor.
Hours after the photo emerged on Monday, The Daily Telegraph went to the nature reserve which is a previous colliery, surrounded by housing estates.
Dense trees mask the boundary and the interior is mainly quiet. Adders and bugs twitch in big, rolling meadows and foxes dart in between the trees, the wildlife just cut off by a stable stream of dog walkers criss-crossing the network of used courses.
Some residents are rattled by the idea that a big monster might be living amongst them in such a metropolitan location.
ne lady whose house backs on to the park said: “It’s not something you would expect to see around here.
“ I’ll stay away from the area now until something has been found out – I used to go down there all the time but now I’m worried, how do you handle that if it’s pouncing at you?”
She is not the only one who is a little tense. Brian Barker, 77, a previous shipment driver, said he “saw a few prints” in the lawn and on a gate while shooting numerous miles away on Gun Moor, about twenty years back.
They were quite huge, so there are some about. There utilized to be wallabies up there, a chap brought them in in the 1920s and let them out all over,” he said.
Experts have actually recommended that black panthers, which are either jaguars or leopards which have melanism, which darkens body tissue coloring, started breeding in Britain after the Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976 made it much harder to own leopards as animals, implying some were launched into the wild.
Carl Marshall, a British huge cat lover, who deals with the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ), an organisation that research studies secret animals such as the Loch Ness beast, said the image was “ambiguous, it is clearly a large cat of the panthera genus, and it’s so clear we can even see its whiskers”.
However, Richard Freeman, the CFZ’s zoology director, reckons it is a “hoax” with the panther superimposed on to another image.
That said, he firmly insists “the evidence that big cats live in Britain is overwhelming”.
“A puma was found in Scotland, a jungle cat was found in Britain, there have been things examined by experts that have the tooth marks of big cats in them, the CFZ itself found some hair from a woods in north Devon that was identified by Copenhagen University as being from a leopard, and I’ve seen one myself from a coach on the outskirts of Exeter, a puma,” he informed The Telegraph.
“Just how many there are, and how much they’re breeding, is a different matter. We get (big) cat sighting reports often, they’re probably all over Britain in the wilder areas.”
He advised individuals to report them – however insisted they will do no damage to human beings as they are shy.
“There’s nothing that fantastical about them, they’re just animals, we’re not talking about the Loch Ness monster,” he said.
“There should be no real embarrassment or not believing seeing a big cat, because we know they’re here, they’ve been captured, it’s not a question of whether they’re here or not.”
