What Is the Exmoor Beast?

The Exmoor Beast is understood to be a melanistic leopard. These are a genetic mutation that exists in the wild but it reduces their vigour and litter numbers are smaller compared to typical leopard pairings.

Is the Exmoor beast real?

This large, wild 'cryptozoological' felid has become infamous in the south-west, spotted across the fields and moors of Exmoor in Somerset and Devon. ... Although sighted on numerous occasions since the 1970s, definitive proof of the existence of the beast remains elusive.

How old is the Exmoor Beast?

Sightings of the Beast of Exmoor were first reported in the 1970s, although the period of its notoriety began in 1983, when a South Molton farmer named Eric Ley claimed to have lost over a hundred sheep in the space of three months, all of them apparently killed by violent throat injuries.

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