Editing Phantom cat (section)

==Explanations for Europe's Phantom Cats==
[[File:Felicity Inverness Museum.JPG|thumb|right|This [[Cougar|mountain lion]] was captured in the wild, in Inverness-shire, Scotland in 1980. It is believed to have been an abandoned pet. It lived the rest of its life in a zoo. After it died, it was stuffed and placed in Inverness Museum.]]
[[File:Hayling Island jungle cat.JPG|thumb|right|The Taxidermied remains of a [[jungle cat]] killed by a car on Hayling Island]]
In Europe, escaped exotic wildcats have been caught both dead and alive by people of Great Britain. DNA testing also helped in the process of finding out what the animal/s could be, proving them to actually be exotic wildcats. In the 1900s, circus owner [[Mary Chipperfield]] allegedly released her pet [[mountain lions]] into the Moorlands of Great Britain after her circus shut down. A while later, people released their exotic animals into the woods after a ban on large exotic predators took place. People have taken pictures, killed and have even captured the animals alive. Exotic wildcat species that have been caught in Great Britain include:
*[[Cougar]]
*[[Canada lynx]]
*[[Eurasian lynx]]
*[[Ocelot]]
*[[Serval]]
*[[Caracal]]
*[[Jungle cat]]
*[[Clouded leopard]]
Another confirmed explanation is that the phantom cats are actually large stray or hybrid cats since some stray cats hybridize with the native [[Scottish Wildcat]] and the hybrids are larger than a purebred cat. The Scottish [[Kellas Cat]] is the result of hybridization of both domestic and wildcats, and a now mounted specimen matches the description of the British Black Cats: a large, robust body with black fur and small ears.