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BCC EP:115 The leopard trail to Skye

Épisode 115

jeudi 12 septembre 2024 • Durée 01:18:48

Our first guest Graham recounts a close encounter with a large black cat on the Isle of Skye during one of his fishing trips. We discuss how a cat like a black leopard could have arrived on Skye and how well such a cat could go unnoticed in the island’s wild terrain.

For our second guest we catch up with Scotland research coordinator Paul Macdonald. Amongst recent highlights he describes two clips of footage shown to him at a recent rural show stand, and a report of a roadside puma carcass being recovered by a military crew.

Thanks to Scottish folk singer Shona Donaldson for Beast o’the Bin.

Word of the week: Fieldwork

12 September 2024

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BCC EP:114 Wye Valley pumas – the rescued & the wild

Épisode 114

mercredi 21 août 2024 • Durée 01:26:07

In this Summer edition we discuss pumas encountered in the wild on the England & Wales border in the Wye Valley, but we also visit a special sanctuary for re-homed exotic pets, also in the Wye Valley area.

Our first guest Grant, explains how he and friends were advanced on by a puma when they were out lamping foxes one night. Grant describes the intense eye shine and what happened as the cat got closer…

Our second guest Lindsay has experience with large cats from South Africa. Now she runs Wildside Exotic Rescue, where pumas, lynx and a serval are amongst the rescued animals cared for. She explains the challenges of looking after the cats and the other animals, and she reflects on the consequences of people owning and needing to give up their exotic pets. The pumas are sometimes fed deer, and will be involved in a special scientific experiment to help big cat studies in Britain…

Visit www.wildsideexoticrescue.co.uk to learn more about Wildside and support the work of Lindsay and the team there.

Words of the week: scientific controls

21 August 2024

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BCC EP:105 Top corner cats – tracking the Caithness leopards

Épisode 105

mercredi 17 janvier 2024 • Durée 01:19:13

We hear from Paul, an investigator near John O’Groats in north-east Scotland. He re-tells several big cat sighting reports from recent years, and he explains his use of trail cams, night vision cameras, and lures.

Last summer he followed up a local black leopard report, then found himself in a dense woodland with a growling cat just a few feet away. The scary incident took a twist later that night…

Words of the week: nape bite

17 January 2024

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BCC EP:15 Southern Spain’s stranded panther

Épisode 15

lundi 13 janvier 2020 • Durée 01:03:17

Peter our guest explains the challenge of living with a freshly released black panther around his property in southern Spain. (An area which is not part of the Iberian lynx’s range).

As he realised a panther was making regular visits close to his home, Peter had to adapt to the animal itself, and the different views of his guests, local people, hunters and the police…

Words of the week: Xeric, Xerocole

13 January 2020

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BCC EP:14 Cumbrian predators - panthers & the Tasmanian tiger

Épisode 14

samedi 28 décembre 2019 • Durée 47:37

Cumbrian sculptor Shawn Williamson recounts his view of a panther spooking deer in the back lanes of the Lake District. He explains how panthers and big cats inspire some of his sculpture making.

Rick and Shawn also discuss people’s elemental connections with wildlife including big cats and even the Tasmanian wolf or Thylacine, which itself has a historical link with Cumbria, as Shawn explains.

Words of the week: General Impression of Size and Shape (GISS)

28 December 2019

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BCC EP:13 Lincolnshire - Cats of all sizes

Épisode 13

dimanche 15 décembre 2019 • Durée 53:50

Lincolnshire witnesses Wendy and Angela discuss the quandary of spreading the word about local big cats amongst sceptical neighbours.

Wendy was growled at by a puma when she disturbed it stalking feral cats. Her friend Angela is 12 miles away and has encountered black big cats, seeing a mother and young one night.

Word of the week: Feral

15 December 2019

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BCC EP:12 Secret lynx & soft rewilding

Épisode 12

dimanche 1 décembre 2019 • Durée 43:17

Our guest Peter Taylor suggests that rewilding helps nature and the human soul. He meets Rick at Wild Place, a new outpost of Bristol Zoo. Here brown bears, wolves and lynx can be viewed in a British woodland setting.

Peter considers how Eurasian lynx could be re-introduced in Britain but only with support from local communities. Rick and Peter note that spontaneous rewilding has already happened in parts of Britain where large cats are a hidden part of the ecosystem.

Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qseZzVejfyM

Words of the week: Intra-guild predation

1 December 2019

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BCC EP:11 Puma in the Park – in Orlando and Gateshead

Épisode 11

mercredi 13 novembre 2019 • Durée 43:20

We meet Gareth who lives in Gateshead district in north-east England. He describes how he had a surprise view of a puma stalking a deer on holiday in Florida a few years back. He then explains what happened early one morning in October 2019 when walking his dog in his local park, when he witnessed the same type of animal.

Gareth and Rick consider how a puma might pass through residential areas like Gateshead, and other north-east sightings are discussed. Gareth also wonders why, several years back, he and colleagues never found anything when rushing out of their office into adjacent woodland, to sounds which they thought were a woman in distress…

Word of the week: Introgression

13 November 2019

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BCC EP:10 Aussie panthers – secrets of the Bush

Épisode 10

mercredi 30 octobre 2019 • Durée 01:07:32

An in-depth discussion on the panthers and pumas reported across Australia with author and researcher Simon Townsend from Victoria.

Simon explains why he feels the Australian panthers match black leopards and are not outsize feral cats. Tawny coloured cats resembling pumas are also reported, which Simon includes in his accounts of witness reports. The discussion ranges over the origins of these cats, the likely prey carcasses which Simon examines, and attitudes of remote communities. Documentary makers are now on the case with Simon, revealing another side to the Australian Bush.

Words of the week: Macropod , Marsupial lion

31 October 2019

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BCC EP:09 Signs on the prey - the science of the tooth marks

Épisode 9

mercredi 16 octobre 2019 • Durée 49:30

We discuss how big cats use heathland as their territory with Jonathan McGowan, and hear about two of his encounters in Dorset and the New Forest. He scouts out suspected prey remains of deer in these areas, looking for tell-tale tooth marks on the bones.

We then hear from Dr Andrew Hemmings in the lab at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester. After receiving these skeletal remains from Jonathan and others, students gauge the tooth marks to identify those which match the scale and pattern of puma and leopard carnassial teeth. Andrew discusses how tooth-pit analysis can contribute to the evidence base for big cats in Britain.

Words of the week: Citizen science

16 October 2019

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