HUMPHREYS COUNTY, Tenn. – Video taken in Humphreys County shows what the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Association (TWRA) believes is a large cougar sniffing in the woods.
“This video is the best I’ve ever seen in terms of it being a cougar,” said Doug Markham with TWRA told WKRN News 2.
The footage was caught on a deer trail camera on Nov. 24 on Austin Burton’s family farm.
He told News 2 he’s been hunting on that property his whole life, and his dad has for about 35 years.
“They are the top predator. If they come back in numbers, they are the top predator out there. Man is the only top predator that would be above it,” the TWRA official said.
Markham also said they never have seen good evidence until now, but they did form a committee about six weeks as this sighting was the third in recent months.
“It’s an animal you have to be cautious with. If you see one, if you happen across one, let it go its way,” he said. “Don’t do anything to disturb it and you go your way because they are powerful, they are strong, but attacks on people are very rare in this country.”
Humphreys County is approximately and hour and a half southwest of Clarksville.
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