While these prints were found in the general vicinity of where the creature was spotted, whether they correspond directly to the sighting reported or not remains in question.Īrboretum Director Miles Sax, though, is quick to side with the cynics: “bobcats are regularly seen in the area, including on several occasions in my backyard on Williams street.” He reports that multiple families living around the Arboretum have observed these smaller, short-tailed lynxes crossing their properties as well, and recommends the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s website for a concrete list of the animals’ likely habitat span and recent sightings. This would suggest that the documented track is that of a dog. Though it’s a little unclear, the photographed print does indicate an expression of that latter 1 to 2 lobe ratio. Online, it appears that the central difference between cougar and dog tracks is the amount of ‘lobes’ on their central heel pads, with lions having two at the front and three at the back (2:3), and coyotes and wolves having just one lobe up front, and only two at the base of the heel (1:2). I was able to get a hold of a circulating photograph depicting the critter’s paw. Multiple sources reported that the animal’s prints could be seen in the snow beyond the South Campus dorms. I saw a tail that was long, so I don’t think it was a bobcat…I remember the silhouette and it looked like what you see online.” “It looked like a big cat and it ran towards Cummings. “I thought it was a coyote, because it was definitely not a deer,” she discloses, “but I have seen a coyote before, and it didn’t look like a dog-like creature at all.” She recalls that the animal darted out between Fanning and Bill Hall, and that it was visible for about five to ten seconds. I had the chance to speak with the student ‘21 who’d witnessed the sighting first-hand, at 1 a.m. “There’s so much random wildlife on campus and I was excited for another animal to join the crew.” “I was honestly excited,” another student ‘21 admits. Are people overreacting?” one student posted to the account while the Instagrammers behind the campus connections account raised the question: “are there… mountain lions… in Connecticut?”īut the wildcat had its fair share of believers too: “I saw it, literally I can provide details,” someone writes, among the influx of jokes that “maybe he was just… lion on the Green”. “I’ve seen two big dogs on campus this week.
Did you hear? About the Mountain Lion on the Green? For several days, the mysterious cat was the talk of the town, a conversation starter met with both excitement and skepticism. “It was big, so I thought it was a deer at first,” an anonymous ‘21 eyewitness accounts, describing the campus’ most recent, and soon virally infamous, visitor. And yet, a recent buzz of rumors appears to set the record straight on what is truly hair-raising enough to get even the hardiest Camels among us gossiping. We’re scared of things that normally wouldn’t frighten us: sniffles, hidden coughs, visible noses-things that once seemed normal, ordinary.
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