Claim: DNA evidence confirms existence of black panthers in the British countryside

[Mendel]

For a more reasonable height of the patch of 60-80 cm, we instead get down to 20-25 cm shoulder height, and that just happens to be the size of a completely normal house cat.

To drive this point home: both boxes are the same dimensions, and the black cat fits comfortably within.

For the "leopard" to be twice as big as the cat, it'd have to be at least 3 times as far as the cat, and it doesn't look like it was. (Do we have a map earlier in the thread?)

As presented by Shell Lee, the image of the "normal cat" is smaller than the image of the "black panther" even though the black panther is more distant. Checkmate, Skeptics.

The point is that the cat is not smaller than the black animal, relative to the size of the bush. It is bigger.

See also https://www.metabunk.org/threads/cl...-in-the-british-countryside.12957/post-290202 and following for a nicer comparison.

 

[Trailblazer]

To drive this point home: both boxes are the same dimensions, and the black cat fits comfortably within.

For the "leopard" to be twice as big as the cat, it'd have to be at least 3 times as far as the cat, and it doesn't look like it was. (Do we have a map earlier in the thread?)


The point is that the cat is not smaller than the black animal, relative to the size of the bush. It is bigger.

See also https://www.metabunk.org/threads/cl...-in-the-british-countryside.12957/post-290202 and following for a nicer comparison.

I think you are misunderstanding @Z.W. Wolf's point. Read on and his post explains why the presentation is deceptive.

The crop is misleading and suggests that the "small cat" is in the foreground whereas the "big cat" was much further away.

But in fact, the crop shows just a small part of the image, all of which is a long way away from the camera - in fact, to a good approximation, they are the SAME distance away from the camera, so if they appear the same size, they ARE the same size.

Both cats were a long way from where the camera was located, as the zoomed-out view reveals: