![]() ![]() ![]() So far, he said, none of them have been proven. Williams said his office receives a couple dozen reports each year about suspected mountain lion sightings. “It appears to be a bobcat.”Īnd it appears the case of mistaken identity is nothing new. “It’s low to the ground it doesn’t appear longer than the gate in the photo and there’s no tail,” Williams said. Many people believed the large feline was a mountain lion - a species that hasn’t existed in the wild in Pennsylvania for more than 100 years.īut the Pennsylvania Game Commission says the photos are of a bobcat, not a mountain lion.Īccording to Bill Williams, information and education supervisor for the Game Commission’s Northeast Region in Dallas, there are several indicators that point toward the animal being a bobcat. Photos of the cat, taken in South Abington Township, were posted to Facebook by WNEP’s Kurt Aaron and soon after the speculation began. A family’s security camera captured a few images of a large cat last Saturday, but it’s just not the type of feline many people imagined would be lurking in the woods in these parts. ![]()
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