It's a bobcat. You can even see the spots on its white belly and the short tail gives it away. Definitely not a lion. There may be some around but that isn't one of them.
Maybe its a piebald mountain lion, and its tail got lopped off in a jaw trap.
Yall missed the title of the thread where it said "REAL" didn't yall?
This reminds me of the 6' turkeys in Kansas.
Prehistoric if you will.......................
It's kind of disconcerting that people who can't identify a bobcat are carrying weapons in the woods with the intention of killing stuff.
The picture is plenty clear. You could trace the rough outline with a magic marker and show it to a blind man after a night of binge drinking and he should still be able to tell you what North American mammal it is.
If you know anything about lions they do not live in one small area, their home range can be hundreds of miles, traveling up to 25 miles in a single day.
The odwc gets hundreds of reports of lions a year but only a handful over the last few decades have turned out to be legit. They are in Oklahoma but are very rare. That is a bobcat without a doubt.
Looks more like a bobcat to me as well, I have seen a Mountain Lion in the same area(mile section)on two different occasions with my own eyes and trust me their tails are the dead give away. One time it was a lot closer than I was comfortable with, as I was out in the open away from my truck where my gun was at the time. I'm not joking that cat was big and I mean big, I was pretty nervous and I don't get wound up that easy. This was also in Oklahoma around the Pharoah area, in between Okemah and Henryetta in Okfuske County.
