But authorities haven’t found any evidence of the animal’s presence.

We got pretty excited about the potential cougar spotted on the University of Maryland campus in College Park last week, if only for the endless stream of terrible, double entendre-based jokes that it spawned. But it turns out the ‘cougar’ wasn’t a cougar at all — surveillance photos indicate the cat people saw was probably a Savannah cat. Savannah cats like the one pictured at left are hybrids of domestic short hairs and larger African…

Thanks to a reader for forwarding this email from the University of Maryland Department of Public Safety: CAMPUS ALERT July 31, 2008 There have been several reliable sightings of an animal fitting the description of a cougar on the campus. The description of the sighted cat is: light tan and tawny brown, about 4 feet long with a 4 foot tail, and weighing about 50 pounds. Several sightings have been reported from the area of…