Guess that animal

[DammitBoy]

it's a bobpanthercat

 

[RinkRat]

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Three Florida Panthers

Judging from size of the animal in your negative-reversed-infrared-night-image and salt-block referencing for a scale/sized reference, it would have to be a very large Bobcat!

The shape of the snout is hard to make-out but it looks like it COULD be a bit elongated for a cat and could possibly be shaped more like a canine/coyote??




The cheeks look kind ah puffy like a cat or a coyote. The makings on the inter-front leg look like a Panther's. But I don't think a coyote wouldn't have the humped back when stooping over where a cat would?? The tail could be hidden in the poor image quality or tucked over/under/around or where ever??

And without the skates and stick it defensively isn't a Florida Ice-Cat as shown in picture #3

So I'm guessing it's a Florida Panther.

 

[RinkRat]

Two pictures of a Jaguarundi. But they are about the size of a Bobcat so I doubt that's what it is. They haven't really been sighted in Florida since the late 70's, and they travel more during the day then at night.

 

[FLAvalanche]

They haven't really been sighted in Florida since the late 70's,

They've been sighted regularly in this area. I've personally seen two in the last 10 years, one within the past couple of months.

 

[LiENUS]

I looked at the original picture and it didn't scream bobcat to me at all.
I'm going with the florida ice-cat as shown in RinkRat's Picture #3