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Where must the puma have come from?
Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo
that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously.
However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for
the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large
cat' only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed
that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the
puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the
evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animal