'Le Pacte des Loups' (Brotherhood of the Wolf - <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/</a>) was a 2001 french movie in which the beast turned out to be a wolf raised, bred and controlled by someone.
Pretty cool. The picture of the statue in the article reminds me of the 18th century lion taxidermy which is known for its comical look.<p>Here: <a href="https://www.kungligaslotten.se/english/articles-and-movies/news/2019-02-06-the-legend-of-leo.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.kungligaslotten.se/english/articles-and-movies/n...</a>
The logo of Marcel Robbez-Masson, a fairly big company specialized in producing gold jewelry, is the beast of Gevaudan, a neat way to trace to the company's roots in the Lozere region where the beast's legend originated: <a href="http://www.robbez.fr/" rel="nofollow">http://www.robbez.fr/</a>
Short hair, color of a deer, long tail, claws... it sounds to me based solely on that description like a mountain lion. Makes me wonder if the townsfolk had not seen one before, so assumed it to be a 'weird looking wolf'. Then again, how one got there in the first place would be interesting.
Why do they consider "sub-adult-male" lion rather than just a female lion?<p>People wouldn't be familiar with it due to the lack of mane, but it would certainly be able to pray, and would match the claws and other characteristics, tho not the stripes.
I thought this was already cleared by History. They ran some program like over a decade ago where they concluded The Beast was a hyena, which was domesticated and used by the killer. This was a team, serial killer + beast.
It also made an appearance last year: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235565" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235565</a>