Lion Crashes Whitetail Video

[Sierra Madre]

Guys,

I wanted to get this footage out.

I understand it was taken in Mexico from a deer stand.

https://youtu.be/Y9htuTt0khU

[ridgerunners]

That doesn't look like a lion to me.Looks like a bobcat!????

[FullCryHounds]

If that's a bobcat, it will be the new world record. Definitely a lion.

[pegleg]

Depends on the size of the deer.

[david]

That doesn't look like a lion to me.Looks like a bobcat!????

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If that's a bobcat, it will be the new world record. Definitely a lion.

Depends on the size of the deer.

I had all those thoughts watching it several times.

I Swore I could see the side-burns and bob tail, but the size wouldn't work for me unless that deer was the size of a hound. Then I paused my way through the video frame by frame a few times until I finally caught the profile and long tail of a lion unmistakably.

[pegleg]

Well coues whitetails ARE the size of a hound. But I would have to go with anyone who viewed it on a computer with the ability to pause or slow it down. On the phone it just looks like two small furious dust bunnies.

[ridgerunners]

I looked at it again and again and I still think its a bobcat . Theres got to be more opinions out there ??? It is a pretty cool video. Those coues deer are tiny and that cat is lightning fast!!

[david]

Takes a little work and lots of tries, but if you stop the video at the right moment you will see the long tail. Unmistakable.

[Nolte]

I'm with David. Seen the evidence of many a bobcat take down a deer but that video is a lion. I slowed it down and spotted the long tail.

Some upper midwest bobbies get 35+ and a late doe fawn might only be 70 lbs so the size disparity could be possible here. Not sure about mexico though.

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[pegleg]

I can't slow it down or blow it up. But coues deer are the smallest white tail subspecies and some unidentified desert whitetail types aren't any bigger. Think a four×four buck with ten inch spread.

[19LittleD99]

I'd have to agree with David. Swore I saw a long tail there. The head and build really looks like a lion too.
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[TomJr]

I am going to go with lion as well. It looks like a young one that's not to experienced though. On Coues white-tailed deer, my dad shot a 3 by 3 Coues that weighed 36 lbs field dressed. The rack fits in my caged hands. Tiny!

[duck duck goose]

With the video quality I was half expecting to see Sasquatch walk by in the background haha