Minnesota Bobcat or Mountain Lion
 

we don't have mountain lions in MN but this sure looks like one to me. Not sure though. what do you all think?

Boy it sure looks like one to me. I think I would send that pic to one of your state's wildlife biologists and see what they think.

Blessings......Pastorjim

Rack, I would say that there is a Lion. Also, I learned a long time ago, Just because the DNR denies something. Doesn't make it so. I told the DNR agent in Grand Rapids for many years that there was a Lion in the Hill City area, as well as Wolves. They denied it, until someone caught it on camera one night.

So yes, there are Lions in Minnesota.

I am going to go with Moutain lion. The stride just looks to long to be a bobcat. An, the coloration does not vary any on the side of the cat like a bobcat would.

I have to agree with everyone. Looks like a lion to me.

Looks like a mountain lion to me.

Looks like a mountain Lion to me. Glad you are in the North, and not down here by the Iowa border. I think I would have someone frome the state look at it too.

Don't choke if they say it is a large tomcat. The wildlife officials have called mountain lions large tomcats and wolves big coyotes.

It is a mountain lion. The body is too big and long for a bobcat. It also does not have the coloration of a bobcat.

Just because you do not see any mountain lions does not mean they are not in the area. Even when they are around, seeing one is not common. They have monitored mountain lions with GPS tracking devices going several miles into cities at night without any calls of a mountain lion being spotted.

Here are some recent sightings in urban areas.

http://outdoornews.com/news/article_...cc4c03286.html

http://blogs.kansas.com/outdoors/201...d-near-k-c-mo/

That's a medium size mountain lion. Two winters ago, a lion was witnessed from just west of Eau Claire (somewhere in MN) to central WI. Took about a month to go 300 miles. People pieced together the sightings and tracks.

Last fall, one was seen and tracks verified in Washington County, which is 50 miles from Milwaukee. And YES, the DNR denied it. They said it had to be a domestic cat cuz bobcats aren't that far south either... in the middle of a corn field... with a 3 foot tail.... with a print the size of a large dog

Its a lion.

Yep, the same old LIE. Don't you know that is a paw print of a large dog? What you saw was a big tomcat. We saw a large tomcat on our way over here.

And they wonder why they have a PR problem with the landowners and general public. Do they think people are actually that stupid?

too long to be a bobcat...mountain lion hands down

I'd be awful nervous going out there to check a trail camera....I've got pictures of several Bobcats by my salt block and they don't lok that BIG...I would definetly say its Mountion Lion! Yikes!!!!


I wish I could see its tail....?Most Bobcats would have some misc spots and/or stripes...there's no visual markings on that cat except a little by its ears...kinda scary to think You have a Mountain Lion on your Hunting Property!

I'm not sayin it isnt a mountain lion but to me it has the black outline ears of a bobcat and also in compairison to the salt block in the background it doesnt look large enough to be a lion. Also cant really see the long tail through the folage so kinda hard to tell but to me the ears are definately that of a bobcat

lion for sure

Thats got to be a mountain lion. i would defintley be looking over my shoulder checking that cam.

Looks like a Mountain Lion to me.

At first glance at the body it does resemble a Mountain Lion but in reality I think you have a large Bobcat here. The ears are the biggest giveaway. Some Mountain Lions will have a faded amount of white on the back of the ears (most don't have any) but definitely not as much white as the cat in your picture. Those are in my opinion 100% Bobcat ears. Also if you look closely you can see a dark black spot in the picture at the rear of the animal. That black spot is in the perfect location to be the black tip of a Bobcat tail. I think you have a big Bobcat here.

Looks like a lion. There have been a few sighted in the past few years. One was seen multiple times around the Cannon Falls area last summer and fall