Pogeyan - The Mysterious Cat

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Mystery is what most of like I think. Had written about given some information about a few mysterious places in India in some of my earlier posts. You can see in my earlier posts incase you want to read it again. But there are some mysterious visitors we have in our forests. No I am not referring to any aliens. 

Pogeyan (cat who comes and goes with the mist).. A large cat.

The Pogeyan is a mysterious large cat that comes and goes like the mist in the Western Ghats of India. This new mystery cat is a feline (a cat or other member of the cat family) mostly occurred in high altitude grasslands of Anamudi peak and Eravikulam forest in the state of Kerala. 

BBC some time ago, screened ‘The Mountains of the Monsoon’ as part of its The Natural World series. This featured wildlife photographer and environmentalist Sandesh Kadur and James Zacharia as they travelled about the Western Ghats in quest of wildlife. 

As per the series, These two along with the local people have seen this mysterious Pogeyan cat but couldn’t record or capture it. His sighting occurred during broad daylight, in the high-altitude grasslands around Anamudi. Unfortunately the cat was not photographed or filmed. It was large, long-tailed, and had rounded ears and a uniform darkish grey colour. It does not match any known cat, and might therefore represent a new species. In an effort to film the animal, Sandesh set up a camera-trap (a chirping model of a black-capped chickadee was used as bait), and also used a heat-sensitive camera. Unfortunately neither effort yielded any images of the cat. Some sketches are made which can be seen below this post. 

Pogeyan may be a giant Indian Caracal wild cat that lives mainly alone in the Indian subcontinent. The caracal cat is a mysterious animal and the species is considered rare in India. Pogeyan Puli as it is called locally is said to be much larger than any jungle wild cat but smaller than a leopard and lion. This mysterious large cat may be a out of place Asian lion in darkish grey colour or indeed a new species of wild cat. 
A lot of questions to answer... as the mystery about this remains.

Take a trek to this place in Kerala and who knows you may spot one. 

INCREDIBLE BHARATHA