I need help identifying this animal

Is that the only pic you have of it?

Send/take it to your local MNR office, so they can deny its a cougar.;)

Lynx...

http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/lynx,ontario

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Trev
if your bear bait is south of Sudbury, it could be either a lynx or a bobcat. If north of Sudbury, almost definitly a lynx, in summer coat. Without seeing the face, hard to tell, but I'm leaning towards lynx (legs a bit long for bobcat) The northerly limit of bobcat habitat in this area runs just about through Sudbury.
 
its got a long tail. not a lynx they have short stubby tails. does have the general coloring, and the slimmed out head of a lynx/bobcat, but the long tail kills it as that.

id put my money on cougar.
 
Thanks for all the input. Unfortunately that is the only picture I got of it.

I am hoping it is a cougar. That would mean they are making a come back. But after seeing the link Blargon had posted, I suspect he is right. A lynx.

I may just submit this to the MNR for their opinion.
 
I would have to say lynx, maybe bobcat. I looked over the pic a few times and what looks to be a tail under close examination appears to be the shadow of the rear legs being offset.
Also from the cougars i have seen body structure doesn't look quite right for a cougar.
 
Wow I had to really look close at that pic . In my opinion what looks like a long tail at a glance appears to be the far side rear leg. If you look real close you can see the stubby tail of a lynx....bobcat?? Not imo, the rear hips and back are higher than the front shoulder, true to form in a lynx. Bobcats dont seem to have as much height diff from rear to front shoulders, not that I have seen a bobcat in the wild, pics only but I have seen many many lynx up close. Just my .02 worth........definitely not a cougar IMO.;)
 
The "long tail" you guys think you see is in fact the outside of the rear right leg in mid stride, that is broken up by that dry weed in front. You can also make out the inside of the rear left going to the ground behind it. Also, high above its anus is a little snub tail, indicative of a bob cat or lynx. The lynx have trapped are more bushy, but that is due to that fact that the pelts are "prime", and this one is not quite there yet, but without any doubt in my mind, this is a lynx, or bobcat.

This is a lynx I trapped a couple years back:

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and this is where the "tail" should be if it were a cougar, which it is not in any way shape or form

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Times two.

Had to look real close to spot it though.


mclean said:
The "long tail" you guys think you see is in fact the outside of the rear right leg in mid stride, that is broken up by that dry weed in front. You can also make out the inside of the rear left going to the ground behind it. Also, high above its anus is a little snub tail, indicative of a bob cat or lynx. The lynx have trapped are more bushy, but that is due to that fact that the pelts are "prime", and this one is not quite there yet, but without any doubt in my mind, this is a lynx, or bobcat.

This is a lynx I trapped a couple years back:

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and this is where the "tail" should be if it were a cougar, which it is not in any way shape or form

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Neither – nor..... not sure

Did I miss in the thread where it mentions what part of the country this picture was taken?

The way I see it, the average height of adult bobcat is 14-15" from ground to shoulder and the males average about 20 to 25 lbs, females average 20 lbs.

That said, those 20 litre buckets in the picture look mighty small compared to the cat.

I am not saying it is a cougar because the tail is not truly visible, but I am saying that it is way too big to be a bobcat.

Robert
 
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