Editing Phantom cat (section)

===Blue Mountains panther===
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The Blue Mountains panther is a phantom cat reported in sightings in the [[Blue Mountains (New South Wales)|Blue Mountains]] area, west of [[Sydney]] for over a century. Speculation about the Blue Mountains panther includes the theory that it descended from either circus or zoo escapees, or is a descendant of a military mascot.

Video footage showing a large black cat near [[Lithgow, New South Wales|Lithgow]] was examined by a group of seven zoo, museum, parks, and agriculture staff, who concluded that it was a large domestic cat (2&ndash;3 times normal size) based partly on its [[Morphology (biology)|morphology]] and partly on the behaviour of a nearby normal-sized domestic cat.<ref name="NSW report">{{cite web |author=Bill Atkinson |date=2003 |title=Report on information available on the reported large black cat in the Blue Mountains |url=http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/nsw_gov_report.html |access-date=9 February 2010 |publisher=NSW Agriculture}}</ref>