The report in The Times newspaper is clear. A mother mountain lion and her two offspring were not suspected of killing the person that they were eating but nonetheless all three were shot dead because Arizona Game and Fish Department … Continue reading →
It is unusual for a state department to become involved like this in taking the time and trouble to prove that a citizen of the state has got it wrong when they say they have seen a mountain lion. In … Continue reading →
This is a big and if we are honest a philosophical question because there is no absolute necessity nowadays to hunt pumas (aka mountain lions). This activity, pastime or form of human entertainment (primarily) is carried out because some humans … Continue reading →
Mountain lions do not carry prey up trees, in answer to the question. After killing prey mountain lions may begin to eat immediately or they may prepare the carcass. For example pumas usually pluck birds before eating them. Mountain lion … Continue reading →
The eastern puma is extinct because they were extirpated from the eastern United States by the late 1890s. In other words they were eradicated or completely destroyed through hunting and trapping in that part of the United States of America. … Continue reading →
Mountain lions are not normally independent until they are at least a year old. In a study of 1992, Characteristics of a Hunted Population of Cougars in South-Western Alberta by Ross and Jalkotzy it was found that of 30 kittens … Continue reading →
They had to file this super cute cougar kitten as a domestic cat at the Santa Barbara County Animal Services shelter because they don’t have a suitable designation on their software (my guess). A mailperson delivered this cat to the … Continue reading →
Domestic cats don’t understand television and I don’t blame them. I have said it before, cats don’t understand television. They think it is real. I remember a cat watching another cat on TV and the television exited the screen on … Continue reading →
News media on the Internet is full of this story. It’s about a mountain lion which they say was stuck up a tree. The cat was perched on a branch 15 m above ground. For some reason or other, somebody … Continue reading →
As always, business and economic expansion is more important, at the end of the day, to wild species conservation. And the Trump administration, as we well know, is very keen on economic expansion in the USA together with the resultant … Continue reading →
