Aint no doubt in my mind that is a bobcat...
Bigger pic.
When you border the wilderness in california and hike everyday, you see them extremely frequently. Home building forces them into smaller and smaller areas.
I will be honest and say that seeing it now in context with the box makes me second guess myself. Wish I would have seen that one first. Size is really the determining factor. They really are huge creatures.
Beats the hell out of me. I've heard of people that lived in New Mexico and Colorado where mountain lions were pretty numerous and some of these people say they have never seen one for themselves. Now, you have seen them almost every day in California! Pick any prunes while you were in California?
Second guess accepted. All is forgiven.......Have a good day WacosSon......
No one is saying its a full grown mountain lion. Thats either a smaller mountain lion or huge bobcat!!! Im leaning toward a mountain lion.
Size is not a determining factor. If a bobcat was exposed to radiation and grew to the size of a mountain lion - it would exactly like a giant bobcat and absolutely nothing like a mountain lion.
LMAO...your killin me.
A juvenile mountain lion looks absolutely nothing like an average-sized, adult bobcat, which that picture clearly shows.
If the bobcat (and, yes, that's what it is) in the photo weighs over 28 pounds, I'll kiss a monkey on the ass. It's literally a picture of a freaking bobcat, an animal so common in Oklahoma some several thousand of them are killed and tagged on a good year. I see them all the freaking time. I also see mongoose all the time. For those who don't know, this is what a mongoose looks like:
