US Officials Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct

William Parcher said:
All you have in your yard is a groundhog? I don't believe it. Looks like you just placed the trail camera on the ground. This might be greatly reducing its photo range. Try putting it about 3 feet up and aimed parallel to the ground. Report back in a week with your true menagerie.
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Hmmm....

I set that camera up in lots of places. Never got a pic of a darn thing.

I set it on the ground there because the property owner said a groundhog lived nearby, and I desperately wanted to get a pic of some critter with my new camera.
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marplots said:
ETA: If they are extinct, that's some excellent ghost footage.
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The Eastern Cougar is extinct. If this is authentic then it isn't an Eastern Cougar. It will be necessary to confirm that the trail camera is located in the claimed place. Hoaxes are very common, but this could be real. If so, it will be a young male that has wandered very far from its birthplace.
 
William Parcher said:
The Eastern Cougar is extinct. If this is authentic then it isn't an Eastern Cougar. It will be necessary to confirm that the trail camera is located in the claimed place. Hoaxes are very common, but this could be real. If so, it will be a young male that has wandered very far from its birthplace.
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An escaped exotic is a slim possibility. A chimp, slimmer still.
 
http://www.lex18.com/story/30663904/mountain-lion-spotted-near-kentucky


Mountain Lion Spotted Near Kentucky

Just one year ago a Bourbon County woman was surprised when she spotted a Mountain Lion on her property; another Mountain Lion has been spotted, just 35 miles away from the Kentucky border.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Officers tracked the animal after it was treed by a dog and killed it.

To this day, no one knows where this Mountain Lion came from, but Kentucky Investigators believe it had once been held in captivity.

"There were some pretty good trail camera pictures of this one. We've been aware of this mountain lions travels now for several months,” Mark Marraccini with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife told LEX 18’s Joe Ducey.

The Mountain Lion was found in Humphrey’s County, Tennessee, just west of Nashville.

They believe the big cat wandered from South Dakota or Nebraska, crossing the Mississippi River in September.

This Mountain Lion does not appear to have ever been in captivity, which he says makes it less of a threat to humans because cats held in captivity can become desensitized to people.

"Mountain lions generally represent no threat to people. They're secretive, very reclusive and they don't like to be around where people are,” said Marraccini.

====> They have been aware of this mountain lion's travels now for several months <====
but they can't find an entire family of bigfoot that good ol' Chris has seen....

http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/12/are_cougars_moving_south_sight.html
 
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It is not uncommon to test the DNA of cougars when they are found in the East. This will allow for the determination of its geographic origin. Many (most?) privately owned cougars have an origin in South America where they are captured and sold as pets. The DNA will reveal that. Also any cats without claws are presumed to be pets but DNA can still be analyzed.
 
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