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Latest Episodes

EP:130 The Lactating Leopard – bonding with a black shadow 1st September 2025
EP:129 Hidden in Herefordshire – the leaping leopard & the hissing puma 9th August 2025
EP:128 Secrets of the hoax – real & imagined beasts 16th July 2025
EP:127 Lurking at the margins – big cats of Mercia & Durham 22nd June 2025
EP:126 Kent Cat Fight, Surrey double take 1st June 2025

About Big Cat Conversations

Panthers and pumas have been reported across Britain for several decades. BIG CAT CONVERSATIONS gives witnesses a voice, and considers what we can learn from these accounts.

Witness reports are important to help guide our understanding of wild British big cats and indicate some of their behaviours.

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Panthers & Pumas Explained

Around 80% of big cat reports in Britain resemble black leopards (Panthera pardus) also called melanistic leopards. Panther is a general word for large black cats.

Most other reports of large cats in Britain resemble mountain lions (Puma concolor), also known as cougars and pumas, a brown-grey cat from the Americas.

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