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A Victorian Government investigation has concluded it is "highly unlikely" there are wild big cats living in Victoria.
The so-called desktop survey was conducted by two researchers from the Department of Primary Industries and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
It found the most obvious explanation for reported sightings of big cats is that they were large feral domestic cats.
Agriculture Minister Peter Walsh has refused to say how much the survey cost, except to say it was conducted using existing departmental resources.
He says the study noted it was difficult to explain some reports from farmers and hunters of reports of animals that do not look like feral cats.
"Some preliminary DNA evidence also cannot be entirely dismissed but it it is not sufficiently conclusive to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the identity of an animal," he said.
Mr Walsh says the investigation would only be reopened if there was primary evidence in the form of a carcass or skeleton.
"I'm sure there's people out there who will say they will swear black and blue there are still big cats out there," he said.
"If they do, let them bring forward some primary evidence that there is actually one there, because unless that primary evidence is found, from our point of view the case is closed."
Topics: animals, rural, offbeat, state-parliament, states-and-territories, vic, melbourne-3000
First posted
18 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-18/case-closed-on-27big-cats27-in-victoria/4267960
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