A BIG cat expert believes a beast may be stalking the area around a popular tourist attraction on Dartmoor.
Danny Bamping says a visitor’s sighting of what he believes was a caracal at Wistman’s Wood, near Two Bridges, is entirely possible.
Carl Foss, 36, from Salisbury, claims to have seen the caracal, originally from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and arid areas of Pakistan and northwestern India, while he was visiting Dartmoor recently.
He said he found himself a few feet away from sand-coloured big cat with black-tipped ears while he was exploring the area of Wistman’s Wood.
Mr Foss said his sighting took place over the space of around 20 seconds before the cat turned and ran away. He identified it as a caracal after checking out what he had seen when he returned home.
The incident has been reported to Danny Bamping, spokesman for the Big Cats Society, who said he believed it was entirely possible Mr Foss had spotted either a caracal or a large ‘exotic’ cat.
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