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US Officials Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct

Only because this showed up in my local news...


I did see a cougar in the far north western corner of Illinois in the early 1980s, one which was eventually confirmed by several other witnesses. But this single unconfirmed sighting by a lone witness? I'll pay attention to any further reports that might come from this, but I doubt it'll turn into anything.
 
William Parcher said:
Now reported that this same cougar was caught on trailcam twice previously while in Wisconsin. Yes, caught by three different trailcams in 7 weeks. That's kind of amazing. It is like there is a gauntlet or dragnet of trail cameras out there.
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More on this cougar...


The three sightings of a single animal reveal something about the number of cougars and the number of cameras, he said.

"It tells me there must be a whole lot of these cameras out in the woods for this to show up three times. If there were more cougars, they would be showing up, too," Adrian Wydeven, a wildlife biologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said. "It's getting to be an animal can't sneak around at all in the woods any more without having its picture taken."

With apparently hundreds — maybe thousands — of trail cameras out there snapping photos, this is only the second confirmed cougar in the past two years. That tells Wydeven there are not a lot of the big cats roaming the Northland...

Wydeven said the collar on the latest cougar — clearly showing in the Iron County game trail camera photograph — at first confused him because it was unlike most new radio or GPS signal collars used by natural resource agencies to track animals. But, after checking with cohorts in other states, Wydeven said it appears South Dakota has used some small radio-transmitter collars that look like the one on the cougar.
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Yeah. A dragnet of trail cameras.
 
I suppose one could counter that these cougars get hungry and are simply tracking deer to feeding stations where they're very likely to be captured on a game camera. Bigfoots, of course, are smart enough to stay away from the camera traps (except the Jacobs creature, that is).
 
LTC8K6 said:
The idea that bigfoot can detect and avoid game cameras is already well established in bigfootery.

They will take this in stride.
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Yes, however, the sheer number of Game Cams means that if a Bigfoot avoids one, it is bound to accidentally walk into another one.

Or one that is chasing a deer, and not on GAME CAM alert, is going to blunder into one.

Or one that is trying to find a mate, and out of it's mind with Romance, is going to scamper through a cam's range.

I can guarantee you, that if one did wander into a camera's range, it is not going to know enough to go and dismantle the camera, as often happens in Bigfoot related stories.
 
Drewbot said:
Yes, however, the sheer number of Game Cams means that if a Bigfoot avoids one, it is bound to accidentally walk into another one.

Or one that is chasing a deer, and not on GAME CAM alert, is going to blunder into one.

Or one that is trying to find a mate, and out of it's mind with Romance, is going to scamper through a cam's range.

I can guarantee you, that if one did wander into a camera's range, it is not going to know enough to go and dismantle the camera, as often happens in Bigfoot related stories.
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Their footprints and trackways indicate that they never do any of those things.

They only walk glumly from point A to point B. Without arriving at point A, or leaving point B. They never do anything interesting on the way, like skip, or dance, or stub a toe, etc.

A point I have made a time or two before... :D
 
Cougar confirmed by trailcam in Juneau County, Wisconsin.


State Department of Natural Resources biologists Jon Robaidek and Adrian Wydeven visited Dennis Dodge Friday after they learned of the photo and attempted to match vegetation and other landmarks at the site to the photo.

It didn't take long to determine that Dodge's picture was the real deal.

"This was the same exact location," Wydeven said Friday afternoon. "So five days ago there was a cougar right at that site."...

The Juneau County cougar, Wydeven said, is likely a roaming male, though he couldn't confirm the animal's sex from the photo.

"There have not been any female cougars detected anywhere east of the Dakotas," Wydeven said.
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I would bet it is either an escaped pet, or an Eastern Cougar that has wandered westward out of the Appalachians.
 
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