Is this a pic of a Marsupial lion ?

[The yowie Mrx]

I picked up the trailcam and got 79 shot of deer , fox, and something that looks like a Marsupial lion to me ?. I put coperight on the pic.
The 1st pic Marsupial lion ?
The 2nd pic fox.

[Dion]

The marsupial Lion you speak of looks half cat and half fox.

I'd say it looks more fox than anything, the snout looks short on the ML pic thats why I said half cat.

But it may just be a trick of light which would make it fox.

Thanks for sharing great pics non the less.

[The yowie Mrx]

Hi Dion It got me!Here is zoomsd shot.

[Dion]

It does look rather cat like, not sure what it is???

[Nikita]

To me it looked very much like a fox, size wise and everything though the snout looks cat like. When I looked closer I wondered could the snout be hidden by some of the long grass?

Still it's great to see people at least out there trying to get shots, rather then sitting on their backsides whinging about lack of proof.

[Rusty2]

Nice shot Mrx !!
Its eyes dont look the same as the fox's . From the eyes froward , it looks like an ugly cat but has a protruding snout and receding chin . From the ears up it looks like a fox . But the body looks like it has a different gate or stance . Thats a weired 1 mate .

Nice catch !! You'd better be careful out there Mrx ! .

Cheer's Rusty2.............

[The yowie Mrx]

HI Nikita & Rusty2

I have no I dear what it is.I can see it has big back mussel to suport a big head and the body is stockyer then a fox or a cat.

[tks]

im sorry but ive been hunting since i was knee high to a grass hopper and its just a fox. they come in many variations and many colours. just a fox, there is a bit of grass covering the end of its snout making it look shorter.

[sapere aude]

Go to agree, it's a fox. Can't quite see the end of it's snout though.

[The yowie Mrx]

Hi tks
I all so have hunted all my life and yes fox do come in a lot of colours like red , yellow ,sliver , black, white around this area.And white, yellow and sliver pay good money.

I sent the pic to one of the best zooligest today and he said:-It looks like a cat to me. The dark, lower part is probably not of the animal

So it sound like it a wird cat.I wish it was a marsupial lion.One day I will get something.

[Nikita]

It really looks like a fox bent over to me which would give the body a different definition to one standing up.

My main case against it being a marsupial lion was the size to have survived they would have obviously changed in some ways but I still believe they would be more of a big cat size. After all honestly how many black panthers could be running around ? I think a lot of cases where just footprints or victim carcasses have been found are more likely to be from the newer version of the marsupial lion.

[tks]

Hi tks
I all so have hunted all my life and yes fox do come in a lot of colours like red , yellow ,sliver , black, white around this area.And white, yellow and sliver pay good money.

I sent the pic to one of the best zooligest today and he said:-It looks like a cat to me. The dark, lower part is probably not of the animal

So it sound like it a wird cat.I wish it was a marsupial lion.One day I will get something.

Just a young fox, they are black underneath when they are young

[The yowie Mrx]

You might be right I'm going to sit on the fence with this one.

[The yowie Mrx]

Just been suffing the net and found a bit on Thylacoleo.And what thay say about the head if one was a live today.


Thylacoleo carnifex had a wide, heavy, short-snouted skull with a bony bar (postorbital bar), as in primates, behind the orbits. It has the longest shearing tooth of the thylacoleonids as well as large, serrated, canine-like upper incisors and horizontally oriented lower incisors (replacements for the canine teeth of other carnivorous mammals). Thylacoleo also had an enlarged thumb claw encased in a sheath (as in cats) that may have been used to disembowel its prey.

[hillbilly]

fox.
cant see why so much discussion.
fox.
Oh, did I mention, fox.

[The yowie Mrx]

IT'S A FROG IT"S GOT TO BE A FROG OR A .

[Ruby]

Definitely fox. Just an unusual angle with some grass obscuring the snout.

R

[The yowie Mrx]

Or a sick frog!

A FROG once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?”

[Jim Hocking]

Strange that the picture is taken in exactly the same place by the background features. Scam.

Sorry I was wrong. forgot it was a webcam.

[The yowie Mrx]

Dashboard

Are you saying this is a hoax?
This was take on my trailcam.It might be a cat,fox,frog or something.
I will load the full trailcam pic for you so you can see I don't do hoaxes.

[The yowie Mrx]

And this is the fox one.

[Jim Hocking]

Dashboard

Are you saying this is a hoax?
This was take on my trailcam.It might be a cat,fox,frog or something.
I will load the full trailcam pic for you so you can see I don't do hoaxes.

My apologies, I didn't realise they are trail cam Photos. To quick to look at background and think it was studio setup.

No your work is above reproach.
I still dont have a clue as to what it is.

[Nikita]

Hi yowie Mrx,

I took these pictures recently as I had found some great tracks and took pictures with measurements and sent them to a scientist to look at a few years back. His answer came back marsupial lion, but I guess after all this time if some had survived they would obviously have changed a bit.

So when we went to the museum the other day and found what an original one looked like of course I couldn't resist the shots.

[MrHead181]

My wife said Red Panda. She`s the Boss.

[Foil_Hat_Guy(1)]

I am personally sitting on the fence with Nikita's pictures - it might be an okapi, a guanoco, or a cryptosporidium (I had to include a "crypto" option for this forum! ).

[Snacksquatch]

great pics. the rounded snout is very interesting.

[AL Pitman]

MRX

If that is not a FOX !!! I will stand (to rude for this forum) . So definitely a FOX !!!


Not succsessful on this occasion but with the application of the diligence that you have portrayed in your recent research , you should be placed on the short list as one of those who will eventually get that elusive money shot . Keep em coming YowieMRX .


IF WE DO NOT LOOK WE WILL NOT SEE !!!! !!!!

[Bow Hunter]

note the glare makes the nose look distorted its a fox undoubtably a fox great work thou

[Shazzoir]

I'm actually wondering if it's a fox with a birth defect i.e., short muzzle? The ears, pelt, legs, stance look foxy to me, just the muzzle looks too short, not obscured by grass.

Just my .02 anyway

Shazz

[mtu mwitu]

It may be a wee bit too late toreply, but it is definitely a fox.

As for the museum exhibits, well, there are good taxidermists and bad taxidermists, take a look at the following man-eating lions of Tsavo which were stuffed for an American museum. These lions in life were over-large for lions when alive, but the taxidermist managed to make them look like tame house cats.

Question is, did they get the build right for the marsupial Lion in the museum shots?

Rob