Can anyone ID this animal?

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If you use the farthest left part of the body as the left rear leg, it doesn't line up with the left rear foot that crosses in front of the right rear foot. There for it would leave me to believe it is the tail, in which case it has the exact characteristics to make it the tail of a Eastern Mtn. Lion. I think the shadow is blocking off the left rear leg and confusing everyone.
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Bingo. Good eye.

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hmm..here in mich the dnr says we don't have have mountain lions, have seen the dairy cattle mutilated by them, deer carcasses stuffed in tree crotches. all these occurred 1 mile from my deer camp. what does the dnr know? they say there are no wolverines here either, cpl years ago, farmers in the thumb area followed one(wolverine) for miles and got some great video. the pic looks like a mountain lion to me.
 
...The photo is of to poor a quality of resolution to make a POSITIVE ID. But it appears to me that it is a coyote walking sideways having become aware of the camera, to hide behind a tree. He is using his tail as if it were a leg to further fool the camera and obscure his true identity. The head appears as low as it does because he is looking through his hind legs as he tilts his head back and around. His 'facial' expression shows that his incredible posture is painful and I believe he'd have possibly broke his own neck if the flash had gone off just a fraction of a second later, when his head would have likely been even further between his left fore leg and his right hind foot. Such a timing with the flash firing would have likely caused the quick contraction of the latesisus glatitudius muscle causing his neck to snap like a twig. THAT is one VERY lucky coyote to have escaped with his tail still between his legs. Rather than dead with his head up his arse.
.....Now if the resolution of the photo would have been better I could be more sure about all this.
 
in western MA i had heard a few reports of a large cat, the size of a large dog, this summer. i never personaly saw this thing but maybe thats it heading south for the winter :p
 
Tail looks just a bit bushy for a lion. And it is the tail, not a shadow. Look at the light on the trees, in order for the tail to be a shadow, the light source would have to be 90 degrees from what the trees show. The posture is pure cat.
 
The image is way too poor and the angle is wrong to even begin to comment on posture. Besides, canines very often display postures that look feline. Watch a Border Collie as it stalks sheep. Or, as we see here, a coyote that knows it is spotted and is skulking away.
 
To Me, I think its a bobcat or mountain lion , I think that black thing is when it walked in front of a tree or some such thing and the camera just did a trick on our eyes.
 
That would be a very strange tree. it doesn't go all the way to the ground and you can see lighter fur directly over top of it. its a bushy tail.
 
There were several reported sightings and confirmation by the game wardens that there was a mountain lion in Westford MA a few years back. They never found it. It happened again in a couple of other towns after that.
Popular belief is that it was released by some fruit-bat as an exotic pet that got too big.
Exotic pets (many illegal) are out there, and like our own cats and dogs, do escape from time to time.
Good friend of mine is a late shift cop who loves his story about a truck driver who waled an Emu in the very early hours. Turned out to be an escaped pet.
Ought to wake anyone up when an Emu jumps into your headlights!
 
Folks, you're gonna think I'm bonkers, but... That picture looks exactly like some of the game cam shots I have of timber wolves on my property in Wisconsin. The coloration of the tail, the posture, everything. Is that area of CT known to have wolves?

It's clearly not a big one, but the pack on my property seems to have two large wolves (160-170 lbs) and a few much smaller ones (80-120 lbs). Many of them have the dark backline shading that is very pronounced down the top of the tail. I'll see if I can find one of my game cam pics for comparison purposes.

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Take it from a South Texan, that is definitely a Chupacabra. They are not really as much of a threat as people seem to think, as there is a simple trick to eradicating them. If you start having trouble with a Chupy, just start adding liberal amounts of hard liquor to whatever diet you are feeding your livestock, pets, family, etc. The next time it attacks something, you should be able to just search near the victim until you find your embriated attacker. If the chupy manages to stumble back to his lair, just follow the smell of Jack Daniels :)
 
Alright, made one post in jest . . . ain't a cat, ain't a yote . . . it's somebody's big shepherd or shepherd-cross dog. No coyote I've ever seen has a tail that dark on the dorsal side and it sure isn't a shadow.
 
mountain lion or wolve. Definately nothing bigger than that. In New Mexico we have lobos (small wolf) but are a little smaller than that and also have black tails like that.
 
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