Wildlife officials say tiger sighting near Knoxville was ‘likely a bobcat’

Phil Colclough, animal director at Zoo Knoxville, said that based on the deputy's description, if it was a tiger it would be “young.”

Bobcats are common in eastern Tennessee, Colclough said, adding that it was completely reasonable for an average Joe to have mistaken the big cat for a tiger. Zoo Knoxville said Thursday that they did not report any missing tigers and all tigers were accounted for.

Better search Carol Baskins' place.

Holy shot. I hope they’re right

a tiger in knoxville, hehe...and the 2 look verrrrry different

So I'm guessing some idiot heard a bobcat and called 911 saying it was a tiger

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Please Tiger do NOT come to Pigeon Forge, TN!!! Ugh

Fake news!

BobTiger

Maybe it was a Sasquatch

Plausible

And how do you explain the stripes? Tigers are some of the most recognizable animals.

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I guess we’ll find out.....

Fooled them again!!

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'it was completely reasonable for an average Joe to have mistaken the big cat for a tiger'? Joe's a dumb ass

Yah cuz they look so much alike hahahahaha

So wait a second ... is there or isn’t there a zoo missing a Tiger 🐅

how anyone could mistake a Bobcat for a Tiger Cub is beyond ridiculous. Bobcats are small animals and, they certainly look nothing like a Tiger. even a 6 month old Tiger cub would make a snack out of a bobact. it was a tiger and this isn't over wait and see

A tiger? In Tennessee?

Maybe it was a Detroit Tiger!

Breaking news.BobTiger dies from covid!

American tiger

Hope so😳😂!! Because one’s a 30 pound, 3ft long vicious animal and the other is 500 pound, 8ft long apex predator that was born to murder everything.

Epstein didn’t kill himself

But here's a picture of a tiger...

No way in hell are people gonna mistake a bobcat with a tiger in Appalachia.

If this is true and there was no tiger then the officer who reported it needs to be immediately fired. If you can mistake a bobcat for a 150-200lb tiger your clearly not fit mentally and/or have serious vision problems that should you make you unfit to serve in law enforcement.

If we don't find it,we will just say it was a bobcat

How many Buds does it take to confuse a bobcat for a tiger?

Like corona virus is just a cold

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I cannot resist... 'Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh my!'

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