Bobcat Spotted Catching Shark on Florida Beach
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Eivaisla/iStock/Thinkstock(VERO BEACH, Fla.) — The Sharknado may have met its match.
A photographer in South Florida snapped a shot Monday night of a bobcat walking along the beach at Sebastian Inlet State Park with a shark in its mouth, according to a report by ABC News affiliate WPLG-TV in Miami.
The photographer, John Bailey told the television station he spotted the bobcat leaping into the Atlantic Ocean and dragging the shark onshore.
“”Initially, it was pretty quick,” Bailey told WPLG-TV. “Spotted it, pulled it up (and) the shark floundered for a while.”
But the bobcat didn’t end up having shark for dinner. Bailey said after seeing him on the beach, the bobcat dropped the shark and ran off.
A spokesperson for the Florida Wildlife Commission, Liz Barraco, told WPLG-TV the agency believes the picture is real.
The agency posted on its Facebook page that biologists think the shark may be an adult Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, which can grow to a little under 3 feet in length.
The FWC also joked in the Facebook post, “There are no shark fishing regulations for bobcats. Just people.”
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